Archaeology Iron Age Tibetan knives rescued from the antiques market and donated to the TAR Provincial Museum by the Tibetan Medical Foundation 11th century Buddhist paintings discovered at Nyak A wrathful Bonpo of Zhang Zhung A habitational cave in Guge The ancient cave city of Piwang in Guge A mountaintop cubic tomb Early Bon figure Pre-Buddhist cave shelters at Lake Nam Tsho Walled-in pillars of Zhang Zhung An ancient Bon island hermitage The entrance to an underground meditation chamber A leveled Zhang Zhung hermitage A Zhang Zhung mausoleum dated to circa 500 CE, Shungpa An early citadel in Upper Tibet The interior of a pre-Buddhist all-stone corbelled edifice The remains of a Zhang Zhung era sekhar Carvings of deer and other animals in western Tibet Large funerary pillars in southwestern Tibet The khyung, the horned eagle of Tibet An island shrine, Lake Nam Tsho Pre-Buddhist temple remains in Guge The ancients on the move An early Bon stupa pictograph Zhang Zhung cave hermitage A pictograph of a tiger with gaping jaws An ancient tabernacle rock carving Pre-Buddhist cave complex in Guge The ruins of an early Bon temple A chorten carving dating to the early historic period The counterclockwise swastika of Bon A pictograph of a sage Priceless Tibetan bridle rescued and donated to the TAR Provincial Museum by John and friends Fortifications of the ancient Mon tribe in Gertse A cave in Guge Lone stele Megalithic array A red ochre Bon endless knot upon which the Buddhist mani mantra was carved The Castle of the Dwarfs, Guge The sacred Bon mountian Tagri Trabo, the abode of the queen of western Tibet A Phuk A Zhang Zhung stronghold on the shores of Lake Dangra Lion talismans from Tibet’s dynastic era Ancient Bon shrines Extremely precious fresco of Tapihritsa, the 25th member of an august Bon lineage Carvings of deer and other animals in western Tibet A carving of a Buddhist Mahasiddha Mountaintop dwelling place of the dwarfs The remains of a large citadel in Guge The interior of A Phuk An array of funerary pillars where human remains have been dated to circa 800 BCE The remains of a pre-Buddhist temple The Zhang Zhung necropolis of Yulkhambu A superb portrait of a pre-Buddhist Bon priest The retreat cave used by Lopon Tenzin Namdak in the 1950s, Gyer Ru Tsho A Zhang Zhung tower A red ochre Bon chorten Temple remains associated with Zhang Zhung’s chief goddess, Drablai Gyalmo A stone shrine inside the great citadel of Gekho, Zhang Zhung’s chief god The interior of a Zhang Zhung all-stone corbelled edifice The Warrior Queen Goddess’s Island bastion Iron Age megaliths of Upper Tibet Bon pictograph of flaming jewels All-stone corbelled roof of a Zhang Zhung era edifice A partial view of the remains of a pre-Buddhist stronghold Archers hunting yaks and other wild herbivores, western Tibet A nomad of western Tibet wearing a celestial metal amulet A Zhang Zhung sekhar The remains of an Upper Tibetan pre-Buddhist citadel An ancient Bon hub Ancient mountaintop fortifications in the middle of the Changthang Bon chorten and swastika, early historic period The ground plan of a Zhang Zhung era temple The White Castle, Ruthok Little Mountain Temple, Ruthok Bon ruins at Lake Darok