Ngari Prefecture
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Ngari Prefecture or Ali Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and largest settlement
Lake Manasarovar and Mount Naimona'nyi
Painting of Avalokitesvara and a fisherman in a storm, Tholing Monastery, 11th century
Ruins of Tsaparang, the capital of Guge
Chiu Monastery by Lake Manasarovar, with Mount Kailash in the background
Tsaparang
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Tsaparang was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture near the border of Ladakh. It is 278 km south-southwest o
The ruins of Tsaparang
Painting showing the story of the Conversion of the Householder Yasa, who became a mendicant and was established as an Arhat, in the Red Temple in Tsparang, fifteenth century.
Tsaparang