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Nanwu Monastery. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Namosi Monastery (pinyin: Nāmó Sì; Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་རྩེ་དགོན; Wylie: lha mo rtse dgon), also transliterated as Lhamotse Monastery, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery west of the town of Kangding in Kangding County of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan Province, southwestern China.

The complex of traditional architecture is located in the historical Tibetan region of Kham. The monastery is home to about 80 Buddhist monks.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.