bhutan - Buddhism, Gantay Gompa

On my way up to the gompa I came across these timbers being hauled and loaded onto a truck. The workers, as is the case on most hard labor projects in the country, as from India.
The timber had been cut and trimmed on the spot, then loaded onto the truck and would be hauled up the hill to the gompa. There it would be further hewn by hand and eventually become part of the reconstructed gompa. It was strange for my western eye to see so much being done by hand. The lumber shed in front of the gompa was very large and to my knowledge there was no power saw, certainly no whine of one while I was there.

Next we go inside!