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Shugsheb nunnery

Shugsheb Nunnery,the home to over 280 nuns,is the largest nunnery in Tibet. Trekkers and anyone who likes to get off the beaten track will love this excursion.It locates in a large natural bowl, which is about 65km south of Lhasa. It takes a 45-minute hiking to get up there from the end of the motorable road.

In the central hall, there is a three-dimentional mandala of Drolma, together with statues of Guru Rinpoche, Dorje Semba, White Tara and several old lamas. The nunnery represents both Nyingma and Dzogchen schools. Go up the stairs to the right, you can find a chapel with a statue of Machik Labdronma, the famous 11th-century adept who opened up the valley, with a black-and-white photo of one of her reincarnations.

You can hike up the hill, following the electric poles, for 45 minutes to the Gangri Tokar shrine, where Longchenpa, an important 14th-century Dzogchen lama, once meditated. The chapel contains a cave shrine and a sacred tree stump, right in front of a rock image of the Dzogchen deity Rahulla.

For those skillful and acclimatized hikers, they can climb up for a couple of hours to the ridgeline behind,along the prayer flags. Here the hiker can have a magnificent view of the Kyi-chu Valley. If you are lucky enough to meet a fine weather, you can see the view of snowcapped 7191m Nojin Kangtsang and other Himalayan peaks to the south. If you are energetic then, you can follow the ridge-line to the northwest. After crossing a boulder field and walking for another 15 minutes, you can get to a small hill(5160m), with its top covered by a chorten. From the chorten, you can get an epic northwards view to as far as Lhasa. Or you can head to the east, along the ridge, and try to conquer the summit the bowl's main peak.

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