Buzz & Beyond: Tibet holidays
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Published: Jan, 21 2025 14:00
The region’s first Buddhist monastery is a complex of chapels and stupa towers that form a symbolic and spiritual representation of the whole universe. Surrounded by the bright green and gold of barley fields, the braided channels of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and mountains rising beyond, Samye is Tibet’s first Buddhist monastery. Founded in 775, the complex of chapels and stupa towers form a vast mandala – a symbolic and spiritual representation of the whole universe.