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He has also designed an artificial spring in the shape of an ice stupa - a hemispherical structure common in Buddhist cultures - that stores downstream water for use during late spring when farmers need water.

"I want to use ice stupas as much to sensitise the world about the need for a change in behaviour, as I want to use it to provide water for us."

Kardze prefecture in Sichuan is a land of craggy mountains, rushing rivers, grazing black-haired yak and glittering pagodas and stupas.

One of El Teatro’s interior walls is a kind of “Zoot Suit” stupa.

“I pray day and night and light candles at Boudhanath stupa for his well-being when he remains away from home,” his wife, Lakpa Jangmu, said, referring to a Buddhist shrine in Kathmandu.