Travel Writing — Avalokiteshvara

Padmasambhava & Avalokiteshvara, Sani Monastery, Zanskar

• Avalokiteshvara • Bodhisattva • Buddha Statues • Ladakh • Trekking in Ladakh • Zanskar

Padmasambhava & Avalokiteshvara, Sani Monastery, Zanskar

Continuing our look around Sani monastery we find statues of Maitreya, Padmasambhava & his consorts Queen Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal.

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An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh

• Avalokiteshvara • Bodhisattva • Buddha Images • Ladakh • Leh • Stupa

An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh

The old stupas and paintings were taken apart by a lama, broken up and cast into the river Indus which flows less than half a mile away.

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