Key Monastery is a monastery belonging to the Gelugpa school of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, located at an elevation of 4,166 metres (13,668 ft) on a hill rising above the Spiti Valley in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Claimed to have been founded in the 11th century, the monastery is the largest in Spiti and is home to a couple of hundred monks. Pictured here in winter, with the Himalayas in the background and the Spiti river flowing through the snow-covered valley below it.
Author: Kulbhushan Singh Suryawanshi
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Thank you… heartfelt…
Ineffably magnificent…With great pleasure, dearest
Ha! You nerd! This was on Wikipedia’s photo of the day. Waddya do, just scroll Wikipedia like some nerd!?! Don’t worry about how I know…
So if this is a monastery isolated this way, how are they able to maintain a population to sustain the existence of this facility? I mean…it’s a bunch of dudes…who’s making the replacement dudes?
Nature, uh… finds a way.
Like, new people joining!
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