Choni monastery interior, 1925

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This is the Buddhist monastery of Choni [now Jone] in Gansu province, where Rock visited in 1925 on his way to the "Mountains of Mystery" - Amnye Machen at the headwaters of the Yellow river.

For some reason - perhaps due to lack of flash - Rock didn't take many pictures inside temples or of the ceremonies conducted within their gloomy interiors.