A photograph of a stone wall-top on a high plateau, covered with flat grey slate slabs carved with text, interspersed with weathered yak or animal horns, some with white cloth or bone pieces attached. Behind it stretch a wide golden-brown grassland, distant brown mountain ranges and a pale lake under a sky with large cumulus clouds. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a stone wall-top on a high plateau, covered with flat grey slate slabs carved with text, interspersed with weathered yak or animal horns, some with white cloth or bone pieces attached. Behind it stretch a wide golden-brown grassland, distant brown mountain ranges and a pale lake under a sky with large cumulus clouds. No people are visible.

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