"The roof, lintels and walls were replete with motifs picked from the Buddhist texts and Indian myths. Dancing asparas with round bosoms and pronounced abdomen, strong muscular men carrying heavy weights, people celebrating in gardens, a burial site with corpses and funeral pyres, hermits in prayer, musicians: nothing was omitted.

Detail and intricacy were the hallmark of these fine paintings. Ornaments worn by the dancers included anklets and armlets, necklaces, tiaras, earrings, bracelets and mob-chains going down to the shins. On one wall were images from the life of Sakyamuni Buddha and another had an almost perfect mural of Atisha."

--from Here Be Yaks by Manosi Lahiri

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