Video: The Last Kingdom of the Himalayas

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(1 hour) Premise: The uninhabited ruins of the Guge Empire provide clues to the history of Buddhism dating back to the 11th century. Guge was an ancient kingdom in Western Tibet. It encompassed the present-day tracts of Zanskar, Upper Kinnaur, Lahul and Spiti (now controlled by modern day India). The ruins of Guge are located 1200 miles westwards from Lhasa within the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, not too far from Mount Kailash.