Day #74: Gandan Khiid
June 22nd 2013 The main temple (the Migjid Janraisig Sum) at the Gandan monastery doesn't look that spectacular from the outside, but the inside houses an enormous Buddha statue, around 80 feet tall. I thought the temple must have been built around the idol, because they are more or less the same height, but the statue is apparently new, a replacement after the Soviets destroyed the original.
A Buddhist m
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