Tibet: Basum-Tso Lake, Apr 2024

Stopped by the alpine lake Basum-Tso (巴松棤), also called Draksum-Tso, on our way to Lhasa. Basum-Tso is a holy lake of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Nyingmapa, the “school of the old persons” or the red caps, is the oldest Tibetan Buddhist school and is founded here on the shores of Basum-Tso in the […]