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Special to the Prospector - After being on display in 2008 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C., an authentic Bhutanese Buddhist lhakhang (temple) will make its way to UTEP to help continue the relationship between the university and the nation of Bhutan.

Bhutan on the Border: El Paso Lhakhang

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Emily Davidow

One of the most striking physical features of Bhutan is its architecture. I was delighted to discover in Lisa Napoli’s wonderful book, Radio Shangri-La, that the University of Texas at El Paso was built to reflect the style of the kingdom’s unique structures, making a little Bhutan on the Border. Inspired by one of the first photo essays about Bhutan, “Castles in the Air,” from the April 1914 issue of …

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