Sakya Monastery Library; one of most incredible ancient libraries one can encounter is located inside Sakaya Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet.
Built in 1073 CE, Sakaya library is home to 84,000 scrolls that have remained untouched for hundreds of years.
Over 40,000 volumes of scriptures and books, handwritten in Tibetan, Sanskrit, Chinese and Mongolian, tell story of Tibet through prism of philosophy, opera, poetry, medicine and geology, among other disciples.
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