A young Tibetan boy and girl at the school in Gemang, in eastern Tibet, one of those supported by the humanitarian program of Karuna-Shechen

Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche wearing the ‘black hat’ costume during a ceremony at Shechen Monastery

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Joven lama

A Tibetan hermit from a hermitage not far from Shechen Monastery

A Tibetan doctor

An old woman with a prayer wheel

Young nomad girl

Nomads

Young boy. Eastern Tibet.

A Tibetan monk-doctor takes the pulse of a nomad girl in a clinic supported by Karuna-Shechen’s humanitarian program

Tibetan nomad girl

Young girl

A Tibetan nomad girl

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche meets an old friend

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche performing a fire ceremony

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

Tibetan woman

Man from Kham

Tibetan nomad girl

Young Tibetan monk

Young novice monk at Shechen Monastery

A young girl with her uncle, a hermit who spent 12 years in retreat

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Ogyen Tendzin Jigme Lhundrup, the incarnation of the great Tibetan master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

Tokden Amten, a Tibetan yogi who spent most of his life in retreat

A hermit at Shechen Monastery’s retreat centre

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

The Dalai Lama with the young reincarnation of one of his main spiritual teachers, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Kangyur Rinpoche (1897-1975), one of the great Tibetan masters of the twentieth century

Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

Lama Wangchen, a Tibetan ermit who was also a calligrapher