Budda - Asien No. 1
by Paul Panayiotou - © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. - © Paul Panayiotou/Paul Panayiotou/Corbis
Statue of Maitreya Buddha, Maitreya Temple, Thiksey gompa, Ladakh, India
01 Jun 2013, Tikse, India --- Thiksey, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia. The temple contains a 15 metres (49 ft) high statue of Maitreya Buddha - the largest such statue in Ladakh covering two storeys of the building. Thiksey gompa or monastery was founded in the 15th century. It is located on top of a hill about 19 kilometres east of Leh. Thiksey is also transliterated as Thikse, Tikse or Tiksey --- Image by © Paul Panayiotou/Paul Panayiotou/Corbis



























