Gyantse Kumbum
The biggest and best preserved pyramidal multi-chapel monument of the kind in Tibet. It has more than 70 – dark – chapels inside, almost all decorated with murals and statues.
Inside the Kumbum, Gyantse, China-Tibet 1996
We can look at the kumbum as a three-dimensional mandala: when you project the whole building on its ground-plan, it represents a visual metaphor of the structure of the universe. That is, according to Tibetan buddhist thought.
Structural projection of the Gyantse Kumbum
Photo of the week: Kumbum (early 15th century), Gyantse, China-Tibet 1996
καιρός remembered 
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