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