Tsetang - Old Town

Heading for the Tibetan old town of Tsetang through the market	Nightclub on a back street behind Nadong Lu	Trilingual road sign - Gaqoi Sang Lam	Friendly boy posing up on a perch, old town Tsetang
Dusty back streets of old town Tsetang	Tibetan old town on my own	Old town Tsetang	Tsetang Monastery - Ganden Chökhorling
Local boy with toys and a cartoon character hat	Tsetang Monastery - Ganden Chökhorling, 14th Century, recently restored	Tile swastika, Tsetang Monastery	Assembly hall, Tsetang Monastery
Jowo Lakhang, Tsetang Monastery, the Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) and his two disciples, Gyaltsab Je (1364-1432) & Khedrup Je(1385-1	Khedram Je became the first Panchen Lama	Gyaltsab Je became the first Ganden Tripa (Throne Holder)	Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelugpa sect
Tsongkhapa, Tsetang Monastery	The Gelugpa sect, one of four in Tibet, are known as the Yellow Hat sect	Maitreya, the Future Buddha	Assembly hall, Tsetang Monastery
Tibetan festival mask, Tsetang Monastery	Tsetang Monastery	Tibetan girls in old town Tsetang	TibetOct08 1440.jpg
Sturdy house in old town Tsetang	Zeeba (Zipak) - the door guardian of Shiva, over a door in old town Tsetang	Kids in old town Tsetang	Old town Tsetang
Ngamchö Monastery, Tsetang	Yak droppings drying on a wall to be used as fuel	Old town Tsetang	Typical gate in Tibet
Fancy doorhandle	Gangpo Ri (4130m) Tsetang	Ngamchö Monastery, Tsetang	Shrine on the Tsetang village kora circuit
View from the hills above old town Tsetang north to the Yarlung Tsangpo River	View west from the hills above old town Tsetang up the Yarlung Tsangpo	Tsetang Monastery	Tsetang Monastery kora circuit
Shrine, Tsetang Monastery kora circuit	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang
I welcome sight - an open air pub (N29.2398/E91.782)	I was immediately invited to join some local men for a beer	Boy at the open air restaurant	Woman who runs the place with her two small kids
Other customers killing time playing a game	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang
Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang	Sang-ngag Zimche Nunnery, Tsetang	Typical door to a Tibetan home	Zipak (Zeeba) - Tibetan door guardian
Yak skull on a house in old town	Very fancy door, old town Tsetang	Old town Tsetang	Yak skulls are used as decoration in Tibet
Teen-aged boys in Tsetang	If he was Filipino I'm sure he'd be saying "Hey Joe!"	Completing the monastery kora back at Tsetang Monastery	Tsetang Monastery
Old Town Tsetang	Kongbu Lam (Yangochou Lam on the LP map) the main street leading out of Tsetang to the east, marks the north end of Old Town	Guy in Tsetang	Cargo bicycle rickshaw of a fruit salesman, Tsetang
Kongbu Lam, Tsetang	Kongbu Lam, Tsetang	Kongbu Lam, Tsetang	Mahjong game in Tsetang ... I'm guessing they're Chinese?
Shop in an old house in Kongbu Lam selling those fancy Tibetan doors	Tractor Trailer