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