SHALU MONASTERY

Founded in the th century by Sherab Joungne, it is made famous in the XIV by the presence in its walls of Boutön Rinchen Drüpen. The main interest of this small monastery (which houses 33 monks) is its Chinese architecture and frescoes. Its roofs with green glazed tiles and its mandalas painted on the walls of the chapels are very original in central Tibet. Boutön was a Spécialiste Spécialiste specialist, whose written comments he gave. It is the origin of its own lineage, the buluk, whose visible mandalas here are the expression. On the hillside, the oldest part of the monastery where Atisha lived is in ruins.