Distant view of ruins on a hill top. Francke (1914), p. 30: 'On the 22nd July we arrived at the village of Li which looks very beautiful with its many green fields and apricot trees in the midst of a chaos of bare rocky mountains. Li is probably a place with a grander past than present ... On a ...
Lio [Li]. Ruins of Nun's Monastery. Photographer: Pindi Lal (Archaeological Survey of India).
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General view of ruins. Francke (1914), p. 31: 'Not far from the bKra-shis-lhun-grub monastery, a little above the general line of cultivation, are the ruins of an old nunnery, called Jo-moi-dgon-pa. It consists of three separate ruined houses, a mani wall covered with white pebbles and two mchod...
Francke (1914), p. 26: 'The second of the ruined castles is called Seng-ge-mKhar ... Its ruins are found below the mKhar-gog castle, on the left bank of the Satluj. Its lower part is built of large well fitted stones, and higher up the walls are of clay or sun-dried bricks, as is the case in the...