Sakya Monastery Library - Tibet. 84,000 ANCIENT BOOKS | 4biddenknowledge

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Sakya Monastery (ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།) also known as Pel Sakya (White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated 25 km southeast of a bridge which is about 127 km west of Shigatse on the road to Tingri in Tibet Autonomous Region. As to the great library of Sakya, it is on shelves along the walls of the great hall of the Lhakhang chen-po. There are preserved here many volumes written in gold letters; the pages are six feet long by eighteen inches in breadth. In the margin of each page are