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Photographs in 2004 High Tibet Welfare Expedition (HTWE)

The walled pillars (foreground) and pillar array (background). Note the walls of the enclosure and the dislodged pillar on its left side. It appears that this pillar was still standing when the Roerich expedition discovered the site in 1928. The south pillar of the enclosure. The array of pillars can be seen in the distance. The walled pillars (background) and the northwestern part of the pillar array (foreground). The walled pillars (background) and the western portion of the pillar array (foreground). The site, from the southeast. Doring (<i>rdo ring</i> [North]) from the northeast. Note the built-up sections of the east wall, which are composed of stones laid in several vertical courses. The site’s outlying funerary structure. The site’s pillars. C. Ashley McAllen, the HTWE’s physician, stands near the enclosure.
The site, seen from the northwest. Note the clearly delineated perimeter walls. Funerary structure FS1 (center) and funerary structure FS2 (right). Funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS5. The prostrate pillar of Mönpé Doring (<i>mon pa’i rdo ring</i>). Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. Note how the stones fixed in the ground form a platform-like structure. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. Funerary structure FS2.
The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. The two pillars of Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) West. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) East. The pillar array at Gyachungmön Dora (<i>rgya chung mon rdo ra</i>) East. A more coherent wall segment in funerary structure FS3. The uphill portion of funerary structure FS1, Shong Dora (<i>shong rdo ra</i>). Funerary structure FS3. Funerary structure FS2.
Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS1. Funerary structure FS3. The nearly leveled funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS5. The bulk of the mound used to occupy the foreground. In the background is the remaining rear portion of the mound. Funerary structure FS3. The ruins dispersed around the site. The ruins dispersed around the site.

2004 High Tibet Welfare Expedition (HTWE) in Topic


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