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