Tawang monastery seeks World Heritage tag
expressindia.com
28-Aug-2008
        

z Chief Minister Khandu writes to ASI, Prime Minister; Rimpoche rejects China’s claim on area Tawang, August 28: Arunachal Pradesh has requested the Centre to take up a case with UNESCO for granting a World Heritage Site status to the magnificent Buddhist monastery here, which is also one of the biggest such monasteries in the world. While the monastery authorities have pressed Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu to... [read full story]                    

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