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Zone code: IND-NUB-ENS-Zo01
Ensa
Yansa
Longitude: 77.515163
Latitude: 34.780216
Altitude: 3303 [m.a.s.l.]
Take the track leading to the foot of the path leading to the monastery of Ensa.
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carving, cultivated area, landmark, religious building, stupa structure, trail
other, slope
Comments on the environment: Right bank of the Nubra. Very steep path up to Ensa Monastery. Stele bearing a Buddhist deity placed in a room at the entrance to the Ensa monastery complex. Spring.

scattered
scarce

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Laurianne, Bruneau; Quentin, Devers; Martin, Vernier (2007): surveyed
exploited
Comments on the condition: When we visited in 2007, a road to the Ensa monastery was under construction. It stopped at the foot of the site, and it is not impossible that it extended further down. The rocks were probably destroyed when the road was extended.

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