Meru Nyingba Monastery
in Three Dimensions

Instructions:
A viewer plugin is necessary to view this three dimensional reconstruction of Meru Nyingba Monastery in Lhasa. If the frame on the left does not load the entrance to the monastery (give it some time if you have a slow connection - this is a whole monastery!), you probably need to install a viewer - see below for links.

One you are at the entrance to the monastery, you may "walk" through the grounds, enter the main temple, even go upstairs and examine the rooms. Click on the blue wheels that appear in different rooms or areas to make pictures and video taken at Meru Nyingba appear in this frame.

Here are some VRML viewer plugin options:

• Cortona: Installation is simple and detailed on ParellelGraphics download page. Download the ParallelGraphics Cortona plugin for:
  
  • Windows
  • Macintosh


• Cosmo: Though it is not technically supported on newer platforms, many users prefer the Cosmo Player. It seems to work fine on Windows 2000 and XP as well as Mac OS9. Download it and view some interesting VRML resources and links at:
  http://www.karmanaut.com/cosmo/player/.


• FreeWRL: An open source VRML and X3D browser for Mac OSX and Linux, available at http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/download.html.