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