India - Buddhist Monastery

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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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Student monk studying

Monastery kitchen with a

Sandals outside the classrooms

Classroom view with older

Young students

Buddhist prayer flags

Buddhist prayer flags

Monastery high school student

Monastery school campus with students

Local painter in the

School campus grounds

Monastery high school name

Prayer wheels and flags

Dormitory (?) with antennas

Symbolic interdependence

Muslim visitors to Namdroling;

Muslim visitors to the

Temple on the campus

Installing tourist aid signs

Classroom of middle students

Students practicing music

Students practicing music including sacred chants

Students practicing music and chanting

Students practicing music and chanting

Monastery campus dormitory

Students studying outside (for an exam?)

Ornate colorful dragon detail

Female nuns outside classroom

Dormitory for female nuns

Entrance to the female

Nunnery for female Buddhist

The great temple from

Modern day monk

View of the monastry

Ornate symbolic temple details

Great temple roof details

Students walk past manicured

Namdroling Monastery's Golden Temple detail

Protective dragon detail

Temple detail of drummer

Temple detail of drummer

Dragon detail

Ornate temple details (baby

Student filling his water

Detail of Buddhist symbols

Richard Ammon and Michael

One of two great

Students walking toward main

Ornate external details of

Older monk (teacher?) entering

Main entrance to monastery

Symbolic and colorful wall

Grand altar in the

Central Buddha statue in

Entrance to the Golden

View of the great

Student friends

Golden Temple interior

Buddhist statue on a

Close-up facial detail of

Roadside sign near monastery

Central Buddhist statue holding

Interior Buddhist statuary of

Interior of the Golden

Temple symbolic door knocker

Buddhist temple statue

Temple ceramic relief detail

Flowers and gardens decorate

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