A Buddhist monk locks the door to a private area of the Chojin Lama Temple. The temple was spared destruction and converted to a…

A Buddhist monk locks the door to a private area of the Chojin Lama Temple. The temple was spared destruction and converted to a museum during the Stalinist era. Unfortunately, most other monasteries did not share the same fate and were destroyed. Tibetan Buddhism is the most common religion in Mongolia, although originally, Mongols practiced Shamanism in which they worshipped the blue sky. - Observations from 2009 along the Trans-Mongolian Railway by misterzvereff (via https://instagram.com/p/7ImHltIjbs/)