Archaeology The ancient cave city of Piwang in Guge Iron Age Tibetan knives rescued from the antiques market and donated to the TAR Provincial Museum by the Tibetan Medical Foundation The interior of a Zhang Zhung all-stone corbelled edifice An ancient Bon island hermitage Little Mountain Temple, Ruthok Zhang Zhung cave hermitage Pre-Buddhist temple remains in Guge An early citadel in Upper Tibet Fortifications of the ancient Mon tribe in Gertse Mountaintop dwelling place of the dwarfs A cave in Guge Early Bon figure The retreat cave used by Lopon Tenzin Namdak in the 1950s, Gyer Ru Tsho A Zhang Zhung tower Megalithic array Carvings of deer and other animals in western Tibet The khyung, the horned eagle of Tibet The interior of A Phuk 11th century Buddhist paintings discovered at Nyak Bon pictograph of flaming jewels The counterclockwise swastika of Bon The sacred Bon mountian Tagri Trabo, the abode of the queen of western Tibet The entrance to an underground meditation chamber The remains of a large citadel in Guge A mountaintop cubic tomb Temple remains associated with Zhang Zhung’s chief goddess, Drablai Gyalmo Extremely precious fresco of Tapihritsa, the 25th member of an august Bon lineage Ancient mountaintop fortifications in the middle of the Changthang An ancient tabernacle rock carving A Phuk Iron Age megaliths of Upper Tibet Pre-Buddhist cave complex in Guge A chorten carving dating to the early historic period The remains of a Zhang Zhung era sekhar The Warrior Queen Goddess’s Island bastion An ancient Bon hub An early Bon stupa pictograph A carving of a Buddhist Mahasiddha Archers hunting yaks and other wild herbivores, western Tibet A wrathful Bonpo of Zhang Zhung A Zhang Zhung stronghold on the shores of Lake Dangra Bon chorten and swastika, early historic period A pictograph of a tiger with gaping jaws Carvings of deer and other animals in western Tibet The remains of a pre-Buddhist temple Pre-Buddhist cave shelters at Lake Nam Tsho An array of funerary pillars where human remains have been dated to circa 800 BCE The Zhang Zhung necropolis of Yulkhambu An island shrine, Lake Nam Tsho Large funerary pillars in southwestern Tibet Ancient Bon shrines Lone stele The ancients on the move The ground plan of a Zhang Zhung era temple A pictograph of a sage A habitational cave in Guge The interior of a pre-Buddhist all-stone corbelled edifice A red ochre Bon endless knot upon which the Buddhist mani mantra was carved The Castle of the Dwarfs, Guge Priceless Tibetan bridle rescued and donated to the TAR Provincial Museum by John and friends The ruins of an early Bon temple A stone shrine inside the great citadel of Gekho, Zhang Zhung’s chief god Bon ruins at Lake Darok A red ochre Bon chorten The remains of an Upper Tibetan pre-Buddhist citadel A leveled Zhang Zhung hermitage A nomad of western Tibet wearing a celestial metal amulet A partial view of the remains of a pre-Buddhist stronghold Lion talismans from Tibet’s dynastic era The White Castle, Ruthok All-stone corbelled roof of a Zhang Zhung era edifice A superb portrait of a pre-Buddhist Bon priest A Zhang Zhung mausoleum dated to circa 500 CE, Shungpa A Zhang Zhung sekhar Walled-in pillars of Zhang Zhung