Chorten by a mountain side in western mountain, Nepal
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- September 29, 1984
- Location
- Kaagbeni, Nepal
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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A chorten, or stupa, at Kaagbeni, Nepal. A chorten is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, once thought to be places of Buddhist worship.
Chortens are built along trails across much of trans-Himalayan region (the Tibetan side of the Himalayas).
