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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