Photographs

Tibet

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Namchak Barwa, Tibet, 1990.
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Temple in front of the sacred mountain of Jara Latze (Myniak Rabgang)
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Tibetan monks at the banks of Lake Yilung Lhatso
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Lake Manasarovar
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Gotse Pass, Kham, eastern Tibet, 1988.
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche crossing the Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in a flat-bottomed boat
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A group of Khampa horsemen gallops through the meadowland alongside Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's car
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Tibetan monks from Shechen Monastery come to greet Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Clouds of incense smoke rise above the plain below Shechen Monastery
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche crossing the Gotsé La pass
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche crosses the river below Shechen Monastery
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche is welcomed by family members
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Monks welcome Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on his return to Shechen Monastery
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Man from Kham
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Nomads
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A double rainbow appears over Palpung Monastery as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche approaches
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The high valley of the Yangtse, at the level of Denkhok
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Bayang, western Tibet, 1998.
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Horses
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Monks ride to a mountain monastery
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A nomad family in their summer pastures
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Tibetan nomad woman and her child
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An old woman with a prayer wheel
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Riders in procession welcome a lama who has come to visit Dzongsar Monastery
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Riders in procession welcome a lama who has come to visit Dzongsar Monastery
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Spectators at the great festival of Mani Genkok
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An equestrian competition organized in honour of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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Equestrian games during the Mani Genkok Festival
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Young novice monks at Bumnying Monastery
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Rehearsal for the annual festival of sacred dance at Shechen Monastery
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The monks and lamas from Shechen Monastery welcome their abbot Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche
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Tibetan scholars and monks at Shechen Monastery
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Lamas and monks toss squares of multicolored paper printed with prayers into the wind
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Monks from the philosophical college at Dzongsar Monastery debate
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Wooden printing blocks at the printing press in Derge
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A pyramid of prayer flags
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A nomad woman in front of her hearth, near Shechen Monastery
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Tibetan nomad girl
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Nomads
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A Tibetan doctor
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A Tibetan monk-doctor takes the pulse of a nomad girl in a clinic supported by Karuna-Shechen's humanitarian program
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Tibetan nomad girl
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Children
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Festively dressed young nomad women at the festival of Mani Genkok
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Tibetan girl in festive dress at the great festival of Mani Genkok
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Uncle and nephew
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Monk and prayer flags
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A typical landscape of rolling pasture and moorland
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Mount Kailash, western Tibet, 1998.
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The Jowo statue in the Jokhang
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Formations of rock and black sand in the Tawu region
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Stones on which prayers and mantras have been carved by hand
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Mount Kailash, western Tibet, 1998.
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Meadow at 4000 metres