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