Nuns pilgrim to Tholing monastery
After the Kora circumambulation around the holy Kailash mountain, we kept on driving more to the west part of Tibet to a destination called Tholing.
The Tholing monastery is located in Zanda Country, in the Ngari Region of western Tibet. Built by the second king of the Guge Kingdom in 996, it was the oldest Buddhist temple in the region.
When we arrived Tholing we saw many nuns from every where coming to the Tholing Gompa for their meditation. Only nuns no monks! I could not figure out the reason why.
My picture was captured in May 2004 with Kodachrome 25 ASA and scanned with NIKON CoolScan V ED
Sigrun v.K. 01/02/2013 16:33
Ein unglaublicher Kontrast liegt hier zwischen den warmen Farben der Gewänder und der kargen Landschaft. Und es ist ganz gut, wenn Frauen auch mal unter sich bleiben können!LG Sigrun