Images: Thiksey Monastery
The Monastery at Thiksey is one of the places that I much like in Ladakh. Naturally I was excited when I got to know that I will be able to make another visit to the monastery during my trip to Ladakh last month.
The place was much different last month and looked desolate, unlike my earlier visit in summer time when it was buzzing with tourists. It is a large monastery with more than hundred resident monks, but it was so empty this time that I saw no one except a monk who showed us around. There was some change in the landscape too. The arid and brown mountains around Thiksey were dressed in fresh snow. The Indus Valley, which is one of the greenest places in Ladakh during summer months, had lost its colours to an expanse of white. Some images from visit to Thiksey last month.
Also read my two-part travelogue on Thiksey from the earlier visit.
The dramatic setting of Thiksey Monastery
The monastery complex is often compared with Potala Palace in Lhasa
Chortens and Prayer Flags (?).
Chortens, monastery, super-blue skies and a bright sun.
The two-storey high Maitreya Buddha statue at the monastery.
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