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Stairstepping toward heaven, the lamasery of Tikse climbs a high knoll in the Indus River Valley, east of Leh. Rich in art treasures, numerous gompas- Tibetan for “solitary places”- have long been the cornerstones of Ladakhi culture, as they were in Tibet before the Chinese Communist purges in the 1950’s. National Geographic, March 1978

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