Dungkar

Dungkar lies in the former kingdom of Guge in western Tibet. Its monastery and cave temples belong to a landscape rich in Buddhist art: the painted caves of Dungkar and nearby Piyang contain some of the region's earliest surviving murals. Their figures and elaborate decoration reveal the artistic ties between western Tibet and the Buddhist traditions of India. Scholars differ over the dating of the earliest paintings, placing them between the late eleventh and late twelfth centuries.