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Chapter 02
Three Field Trip Reports
Gyangdrag Monastery
Fig. 10: Shows Gyangdrag Monastery and the surroundings
Shri Bharat Hansraj Shah, Dr. Kirit Gosalia, Climber, Photographer and the guide visited another nearby site called Nandi Parvat. It was found that earlier structures believed to be man-made were all natural features: Shri Bharat Hansraj Shah himself has written that those were all natural features and not man-made. (Vol. X pg. 4522 Annexure)
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Fig.11: Ruins beyond Gyangdrag Monastery
Remote sensing data from various satellites have successfully been used in the field of archaeology to locate buried structures, towns, cities, Palaeo channels and the course of river Vedic Saraswati in India (Ref. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, and 40). After coming back from Kailash Mansarovar region after my first trip I started looking at the Indian remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) and Linear Self Scanning sensor (LISS)-IV data of the region and found some rectangle/square structures in the area beyond Gyangdrag monastery. The ruins. were found during our visit to the region.
Field Trip I & II to locate site for...
