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April 23, 2005
Tashilhunpo Monastery
A town by itself in Shigatse. A spread of buildings, built in 1447. There used to be more then 4000 monks in the 1950s living and working in the monastery. Well we all know what happened in 1950 and 1951 and since then the population of Tashilhunpo dropped dramatically.