Prayer flags, like the ones in the picture here, dot many of the mountainsides. This is one of the hills that surround our apartment. There are many reasons for placing prayer flags, and when I asked a college student the reason for these, he said it was for someone who died.
The second picture is artwork in our apartment building. This is the Wheel of Dharma in Buddhism, and I've seen it in artwork on a lot of buildings in Thimphu. The eight spokes represent the noble eightfold path, one of the beliefs of Buddhism.
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