Thursday, June 5, 2008

Amazing Monasteries

clipped from www.oddee.com

Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet)
Madonna del Sasso with its Capuchin monastery is towering high above Locarno
Switzerland
built to honour the Virgin Mary, who was said to have appeared in a vision in 1480

Yumbulagang
one of the earliest buildings in Tibet and it has a history of more than 2,000 years

The Monastery of Gregoriou
south-west side of Mount Athos

The Metéora
Greece

Endowment of Queen Helen
wife of Serbian King Uros I

Ngaphechaung Monastery is located in Inle Lake
wooden monastery built on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s
Myanmar

The Santa María de Montserrat

mountain in Catalonia
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