Tibetan Temple sights in China
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Milarepa Palace
About 2km from the bus station along the main road towards Xiàhé is this towering temple, ringed by prayer wheels. The port-coloured building is highly unusual in the Tibetan world. It's really worth buying the entrance ticket to investigate the incredible interior (remove your shoes), where a sacred meteorite is also housed. The ground-floor hall is a powerful spectacle, a galaxy of Bodhisattvas, Buddhist statues and celestial figures gloomily illuminated by yak-butter lamps. Climb upstairs to a further staggering display of lamas and living Buddhas on the 2nd floor; more deities muster on the 4th floor. An unsettling array of fearsome, blue and turquoise tantric…
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