"Monastic Complex"

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15 February 2019

Monks gather for morning puja (worship) in the Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, in February 2019. Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, located about 45 kilometers outside of Kathmandu, is a large Tibetan Buddhist monastic complex with several hundred monks. The site for this monastery is Tagmo Lüjin (the place where the future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress) which held as supremely sacred to Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most important Buddhist religious sites in Nepal, popular for both Nepalis and Tibetans pilgrims. (

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15 February 2019

Monks gather for morning puja (worship) in the Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, in February 2019. Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, located about 45 kilometers outside of Kathmandu, is a large Tibetan Buddhist monastic complex with several hundred monks. The site for this monastery is Tagmo Lüjin (the place where the future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress) which held as supremely sacred to Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most important Buddhist religious sites in Nepal, popular for both Nepalis and Tibetans pilgrims. (

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15 February 2019

The young monks have a rest time after the morning puja (worship) in the Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, in February 2019. Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, located about 45 kilometers outside of Kathmandu, is a large Tibetan Buddhist monastic complex with several hundred monks. The site for this monastery is Tagmo Lüjin (the place where the future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress) which held as supremely sacred to Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most important Buddhist religious sites in Nepal, popular for both Nepalis and Tibetans pilgrims. (

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15 February 2019

The young monks have a rest time after the morning puja (worship) in the Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, in February 2019. Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, located about 45 kilometers outside of Kathmandu, is a large Tibetan Buddhist monastic complex with several hundred monks. The site for this monastery is Tagmo Lüjin (the place where the future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress) which held as supremely sacred to Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most important Buddhist religious sites in Nepal, popular for both Nepalis and Tibetans pilgrims. (

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#2803346

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803348

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803350

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803352

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803354

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803356

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803358

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803360

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803362

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803364

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803366

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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#2803368

11 June 2018

Göreme Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is a monastic complex with very well preserved carved churches in the volcanic rocks. Churches are dated back to the 10th century and nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The wider area was built from Greeks in order to be protected from fights in the past. Until 1923 Greeks still lived here. The churches here are famous for the frescoes but famous are also the well known fairy chimneys, that are volcanic rock formation in a high conic shape.

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