Jyekundo / Yushu: travelling in East Tibet

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I have read relatively recently that to all intents and purposes every single one of those houses collapsed during a big earthquake of 2010, so I think myself lucky to have even briefly seen it from the outside. In due course, we came to a point where I now understood what he had meant by Khorwa. We'd come to a small lachang, that is, some kind of temple. Literally, it means godhouse.