Female Villager Drinking Tea, Zangla Village

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Zanskar is a valley which lies in the eastern half of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Together with the neighboring region of Ladakh, Zanskar was briefly a part of the kingdom of Guge in Western Tibet. Zanskar is home of small villages and isolated monasteries. Its administrative center is a village named Padum. Zangla is a small town located 35km North of Padum. Women collect money to build a gompa.

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Location: Zanskar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Photo credit: © François-Olivier Dommergues / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: asia, buddhism, buddhist, culture, glacier, himalaya, india, isolated, jammu, kashmir, monastery, monk, mountain, mountains, peaks, remote, snow, tibet, tibetan, village, zanskar