106 Marpha Gompa - Jerome Ryan Spins Prayer Wheel, Prayer Wheels, Main Temple, Young Monk Inside Gompa [8 of 12]
UL: At the entrance to the Marpha Gompa, Jerome Ryan spun a big prayer wheel, which was a present from the Dalai Lama over 100 years ago. UR: Prayer wheels outside the gompa. LL: Outside the main temple. LR: A young monk let me in the Marpha Gompa, and told me the gompa was about 400 years old. He said there are 225 books of the Tenjur (the canonical commentary), which were hand-written in Tibet.