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Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as Tiger’s Nest), a Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan. This temple complex was first built in 1692 at a cave where Padma Sambhava meditated in the 8th century A.D.

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