by Benoit Vermander    Nagasaki rhymes with tragedy, horror and destruction. It is one of the two cities in the world that have known what a nuclear holocaust is about. As one can expect, the recollection ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander A view of the surroundings of the Kangwu temple.      ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander The Tibetan craftsmen work as a team, living under tents high in the mountains while completing the ornamentation of the temple.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Scarves are already adorning the wooden sculptures fixed on the wall.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Traditional motives of Tibetan Buddhist ornamentation are progressively fixed on the walls of the new temple. Later on, they will be paint in pre-determined colors.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander The new Kangwu temple under construction.      ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander With a team of specialized craftsmen, the entire decoration of a large Tibetan temple may take around one year.    ...

Photo by Liangzhun Sculptors from Daocheng county (Ganze Tibetan prefecture, Sichuan) stay around one year on the site of the Kangwu temple for adorning it with traditional Tibetan Buddhist decorations. ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Wooden sculpture being placed on the new Kangwu temple. Later on, painters will adorn it with variegated colors.      ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Young monk supervising the building of the new Kangwu temple.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander As a storm rises in the sky, the former Kangwu Temple truly looks like a ghost of the past.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander At the time of the Culural Revolution, the Kangwu temple was truly burned to the ground. In the wilderness, strange pillars of earth and stones are still standing.      ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Located high in the mountain and still difficult to access, the site of the former Kangwu Temple exhibits a striking contrast between the melancholy of its ruins and the strength ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander This picture shows the extent of the former Kangwu Temple, where more than 500 monks used to live till 1966.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Ruins of Kangwu temple. A new, comparable structure is being built nearby.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Ruins of Kangwu temple, which was burned down during the Cultural Revolution.    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander The Grand Lama of Muli sitting in the courtyard of a little temple nearby the Kangwu temple.      ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander The Grand Lama of Muli in the courtyard of a little temple nearby the Kangwu temple (one of the three large Tibetan temples of Muli in the past), supervising its rebuilding. ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander Juste des emplacements vides... From the tale: Portrait d'îles    ...

Photo by Benoit Vermander See the related tale Portrait d'îles  ...