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From: 2009-03-13 14:53:00
by: Lily Dong
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Step into world's highest temple, Rongbo Monastery

The panorama of Rongbo Monastery, photo from CTIC.

Bai Temple and Mani Stone Mounds echo with the Qomolangma, photo from CTIC.

Buddhist believers come for pilgrimage, photo from CTIC.

The activity of reciting scriptures is over, photo from CTIC.

The fresco,  photo from CTIC.

Enjoying books, photo from CTIC.

A nun is feeding birds, photo from CTIC.

Adding ghee to ghee lamps, photo from CTIC.

On March 10, journalists from China Tibet Information Center (CTIC) visited Rongbo Monastery with an altitude of 5,145 meters in the Tibet Autonomous Region. As the temple with the highest altitude in the world, the Rongbo Monastery was built in the 8th Century AD to spread the Nyingma Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

 
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