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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