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India - Buddhist Monastery

Richard Ammon

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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.

Read the stories about gay India

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
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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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