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Chortens in the snow
Lho Manthang: upper Mustang
The very first temple and religious monuments of upper Mustang were constructed around 780CE making them much older than most of those in Tibet. These ones on the northern outskirts of the capital are probably from the 15th century when the region was at its economic height. At that time Mustang became the main power in Western Tibet.
Throughout its history Mustang has been intimately linked with the western regions of Tibet. The cave library at Dunhuang records that in 652CE the kings of Mustang paid tribute to the Yarlung dynasty of Tibet, at that time rulers of large parts of Central Asia. It is physically an easy journey across the hills depicted here to the Land of Snows, Tibet. Trade, religion and the misfortunes of war have ebbed and flowed here for many centuries. In the 18th century the Gorkha kings of Nepal established their dominance and made the region part of what is now modern Nepal. Nowadays, Mustang, however, remains Tibetan in everything except political allegiance.
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