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