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    Thikse Monastery is located on a hill in Ladakh, India and was built on a rock where disciples found torma offerings had been carried by a crow. It is the largest monastery in central Ladakh and resembles the Potala Palace. The monastery contains a 15 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha in the Maitreya Temple, and murals depicting the Tibetan calendar adorn the main prayer hall entrance. Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas are at high risk of damage from earthquakes due to their random rubble stone masonry construction.

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    Thikse Monastery is located on a hill in Ladakh, India and was built on a rock where disciples found torma offerings had been carried by a crow. It is the largest monastery in central Ladakh and resembles the Potala Palace. The monastery contains a 15 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha in the Maitreya Temple, and murals depicting the Tibetan calendar adorn the main prayer hall entrance. Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas are at high risk of damage from earthquakes due to their random rubble stone masonry construction.

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    Thikse Monastery is located on a hill in Ladakh, India and was built on a rock where disciples found torma offerings had been carried by a crow. It is the largest monastery in central Ladakh and resembles the Potala Palace. The monastery contains a 15 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha in the Maitreya Temple, and murals depicting the Tibetan calendar adorn the main prayer hall entrance. Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas are at high risk of damage from earthquakes due to their random rubble stone masonry construction.

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    Thikse Monastery is located on a hill in Ladakh, India and was built on a rock where disciples found torma offerings had been carried by a crow. It is the largest monastery in central Ladakh and resembles the Potala Palace. The monastery contains a 15 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha in the Maitreya Temple, and murals depicting the Tibetan calendar adorn the main prayer hall entrance. Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas are at high risk of damage from earthquakes due to their random rubble stone masonry construction.

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    History

    Mysteries Thikse
    There is a legend surrounding
    of Thikse Monastery
    this magical and serene place. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
    It is said that Palden Zangpo
    Thikse Gompa or Thikse
    and Sherab Zangpo, disciples
    Monastery (also

    Buddhism
    of a Buddhist guru, were
    transliterated from Ladakhi
    performing rituals at a small
    as is a gompa is a Tibetan-
    village-monastery in
    style monastery affiliated
    the northern side of Indus
    with the Gelug sect of
    Valley. When they were about
    Tibetan Buddhism. It is
    to throw the torma offerings in
    located on top of a hill in
    the valley, a crow came out of
    Thiksey approximately 19
    nowhere and carried the torma
    kilometres (12 mi) east of Leh
    with it. Upon searching, the
    in Ladakh, India. It is noted
    disciples found those torma
    for its resemblance to the
    offerings on a rock..
    Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet

    and is the largest gompa in

    central Ladakh
    THIKSE
    MONASTERY IS
    BUILT ON THE
    In Essence
    SAME ROCK
    STRUCTURE
    A stunning view
    One of the main points of interest is

    the Maitreya (future Buddha) Temple


    from Thikse, that
    erected to commemorate visit of the
    portray's the
    14th Dalai Lama to this monastery in

    1970. It contains a 15 metres high


    simplicity of
    statue of Maitreya Buddha.
    Buddhist structures
    A wall at the entrance to the assembly

    hall or main prayer hall depicts murals


    SEISMIC
    of the Tibetan alendar with the

    Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life). This wheel VULNERABILITY


    has insignia ages of a snake, a bird

    and a pig that signify ignorance, OVERALL


    attachment, and aversion. Buddhist monasteries in Sikkim Himalayas
    constitute important religious
    and architectural heritage. These random
    All these wondrous rooms describe
    rubble (RR) stone masonry
    how buddhist buildings represented structures located in high seismically
    simplicity.... active regions of the Himalayas
    have suffered varied degrees of damages
    in the past earthquakes.

    ASSESMENT
    Analyses identified the damage prone
    areas of the structures and provided
    load-deformation behavior under lateral
    loads. They indicate a high probability of
    collapse for the specified design level
    earthquake of the region. The study
    shows that performance of the structure
    can be enhanced by improving the
    strength and stiffness
    of the stone masonry walls

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