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Monk pouring water in solar-heated pot

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Just outside Lhasa, you can find Drepung monastery. Once the largest monastery of the world, it survived the last decades relatively well and has a small village atmosphere.
I parked my bike and paid the entrance fee, and walked up. Soon after entering the monastery proper, I saw the first solar powered tea pot - I would see many more during my visit, and, as it later appeared, also in other monasteries. The monks have devised a clever system of using solar power to heat their water. Every courtyard has one or more silvery wings concentrating the light of the sun to a tea pot above it. Drepung monastery has clear signposting with big yellow arrows, which allows you a visit to the main assembly hall and colleges of the monastery. Actually, after it was founded in the early 15th century, over time Drepung monastery was divided into seven colleges. These colleges have been compared to the great universities in the West, each with their own specialties.
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