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An hour west of Mysore is the impressive Namdroling Buddhist Monastery and School
where 5000 monks and students from many areas of India and southeast Asia
come to teach, pray and study ancient scripts and modern science.

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View of the great

Entrance to the Golden

Central Buddha statue in

Grand altar in the

Ornate colorful dragon detail

Muslim visitors to the

Muslim visitors to Namdroling;

Symbolic interdependence

Dormitory (?) with antennas

Prayer wheels and flags

Monastery high school name

School campus grounds

Student monk studying

Monastery school campus with students

Monastery high school student

Buddhist prayer flags

Buddhist prayer flags

Young students

Classroom view with older

Sandals outside the classrooms

Monastery kitchen with a

Local painter in the

View of the monastry

Modern day monk

The great temple from

Nunnery for female Buddhist

Entrance to the female

Dormitory for female nuns

Female nuns outside classroom

Temple on the campus

Students studying outside (for an exam?)

Monastery campus dormitory

Students practicing music and chanting

Students practicing music and chanting

Students practicing music including sacred chants

Students practicing music

Classroom of middle students

Installing tourist aid signs

Roadside sign near monastery

Main entrance to monastery

Older monk (teacher?) entering

Ornate external details of

Students walking toward main

One of two great

Richard Ammon and Michael

Detail of Buddhist symbols

Ornate symbolic temple details

Ornate temple details (baby

Dragon detail

Temple detail of drummer

Temple detail of drummer

Protective dragon detail

Namdroling Monastery's Golden Temple detail

Students walk past manicured

Great temple roof details

Student filling his water

Flowers and gardens decorate

Temple ceramic relief detail

Buddhist temple statue

Temple symbolic door knocker

Interior of the Golden

Interior Buddhist statuary of

Central Buddhist statue holding

Symbolic and colorful wall

Close-up facial detail of

Buddhist statue on a

Golden Temple interior

Student friends

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