Today it is a remarkable well preserved mountainous village with living Buddhist cultural heritage.
Apart from its breath-taking cultural landscape setting embedded in the Himalayan mountains, it is important for its temple
complex dating from the 12th century which is considered as an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism, not anymore
preserved in Tibet today. In the footsteps of the famous Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci, who explored the region in 1933, a group
of scholars from various Austrian universities started a transdisciplinary long-term research project at Nako in the 1980s
which led to the preservation and model-like conservation of its temples and artworks.
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