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Arunachal Pradesh
Nothing here is old. The pagoda opened in 2010, Burmese in style, spread over a 20-hectare complex on land given by the state and known in Tai-Khamti as…
What survives here is stonework, not a working temple: the ruins of an early medieval shrine on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra, generally credited to…
Parshuram Kund, on the Lohit river where it leaves the hills, is Arunachal's holiest Hindu site — the pool where, by legend, sage Parshuram washed away the…
Tawang, at over 3,000 metres in the far Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh, is home to India's largest Buddhist monastery and the birthplace of the 6th Dalai Lama.
India's largest Buddhist monastery holds the slope above the Tawang Chu valley, close to both the Chinese and Bhutanese borders.