Leh Palace & Namgyal Tsemo gompa poplar trees snowy peak Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir India

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Leh Palace built in the sixteenth century by Sengge Namgyal. It was abandoned in the 1940s. It is a textbook example of medieval Tibetan architecture, in the style of Lhasa's Potala Palace in Tibet. Namgyal Tsemo gompa or monastery in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Ladakh shows how Himalayan Buddhism functions in a free democracy. Most villages have a gompa and community of monks.

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Location: Leh Palace & Namgyal Tsemo gompa Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir Indial Tsemo
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