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Sikim is stated to have borrowed its architecture mostly from Tibet. But the doorway in the temple of Tashiding bears resemblance with the ‘feature nearly universal in Bihar and early western caves.’³ Another example is the temple at Pemiongchi ‘the form of roof of which we are familiar with in the rock examples, and also as illustrating the extent to which the bracket capital of India may be carried under the influence of wooden architecture.’⁴