Category:Kyigu Drak Gonpa
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English: Kyigu Drak (aka Kigu Tak) Monastery in Leh, Ladakh, India.
A kyigu is a huge appliqued thangka, several stories high, that is hung outside monasteries on special occasions.
A kyigu is a huge appliqued thangka, several stories high, that is hung outside monasteries on special occasions.
བོད་ཡིག: གོས་སྐུ་ (gos.sKu) (here gos-sku is phoneticized as kyigu) in Tibetan, literally means "Satin-image or body"
- གོས་ = silk
- སྐུ་ = body, image, bodily form
- བྲག = cliff / rockface
- དགོན་པ = monastery
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Cell Phone Tower in Ladakh India with Buddhist Prayer Flags.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 5.48 MB
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S 001343 CFTPBN Leh Ladakh Trip.tif 3,600 × 2,400; 24.74 MB
