Ganden Sumtseling: A Monastery Above Shangri-La
A Qing-era monastery rises above Shangri-La in a compound organized around two principal halls. Its buildings and community remain part of a city that has grown around a much older religious centre.
Ganden Sumtseling Monastery
Ganden Sumtseling’s buildings rise on a slope near Shangri-La. Architecture, murals and collected religious art offer different ways to read the monastery’s visual world.
Ganden Sumtseling Monastery
Walls and Scrolls: Songzanlin’s Painted Worlds
Mural themes and portable thangkas give Songzanlin’s religious images different settings. A 2011 Qujing exhibition announcement records a plan to show the monastery’s scroll paintings beyond its compound.
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Songzanlin Monastery, Shangri-La.Rod Waddington · 2019-03-11 · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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Prayer-hall spaces and decoration at Songzanlin Monastery, Shangri-La.madras91 · 2019-11-12 05:36 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
