Tashilhunpo Kora Route

In the afternoon, I had the guide drop me back at Tashilhunpo	Stupa on the west side of Tashilhunpo Monastery	A kora (pilgrimage) circuit circles Tashilhunpo Monastery offering good views	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit
Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit marked by a continuous string of prayer wheels	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Chapel of Jampa from the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit leading up the hills behind the monastery
Chapel of Jampa housing the 27m tall Future Buddha, Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Looking east across the main row of buildings of Tashilhunpo along the north edge of the monastery	Northwest corner of Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tibetan woman walking the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Prayer wheels and prayer flags of the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Northwest corner of the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit with the Jampa Chapel	Well trodden path
Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Dog watching me pass	Northwest corner of Tashilhunpo Monastery with the kora circuit	Looking back along the west wall of Tashilhunpo Monastery
The Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit climbs high on the hill above the monastery	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	The north wall of Tashilhunpo Monastery	Gilded roofs of the Tombs of the Panchen Lamas (10th, 4th, 5-9th from right to left)
Gilded roof of the Tomb of the 10th Panchen Lama, 1989	Tashilhunpo Monastery from the northwest	Jampa Chapel from behind	Palace of the Panchen Lamas and the Tomb of the 5th-9th Panchen Lamas, Tashilhunpo Monastery
The festival thangka wall, Tashilhunpo	Gilded roofs of the tombs of the Panchen Lamas	Tomb of the 10th Panchen Lama, Tashilhunpo Monastery	Tomb of the 10th Panchen Lama, Tashilhunpo Monastery
Jampa Chapel, Tashilhunpo	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit along the north wall of the monatery	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Tashilhunpo Monastery and the city of Shigatse
North wall of Tashilhunpo Monastery	Engravings along the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Tibetan woman walking the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit
Prayer flag covered mountain behind Tashilhunpo Monastery	Place for burning offerings	Tibetan language carved in stone, Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Kora Circuit passing behind the festival thangka wall of Tashilhunpo Monastery
Festival Thangka Wall, Tashilhunpo	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Rock art along the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Thangka-style painting on a rock along theTashilhunpo Kora Circuit
Om Mani Padme Hum	Tashilhunpo Monastery from the northeast in the afternoon	Engravings in Tibetan language	A pile of yak skulls, some painted and engraved in Tibetan
Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Pile of yak stulls and small engraved rocks, Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	View of Shigatse from the northeast corner of the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Yak skull carved with Om Mani Padme Hum
Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Buddhist rock art along the Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Green Tara painted on a rock	Thangka style painting of a Wrathful Deity painted on a rock
Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit with Shigatse Dzong in the distance	Tashilhunpo Kora Circuit	Rather than complete the Kora Circuit, I stayed on the hillside trail and headed for the castle