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A village on the Tibetan/Nepal Border, Southern Tibet, China, Asia

Tibetan monastery outside Garze, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Boudha, a large Tibetan stupa at Bodhnath, shortly before sunrise on the first day of Lhosar (Tibetan New Year), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

White Tara, Tibetan thanka, Shedub Choekhor Ling Monastery, Mont Saleve, Haute-Savoie, France, Europe

Tibetan mother and son in traditional clothes at Lhosar (Tibetan and Sherpa New Year) festival, Bodhnath stupa, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bagmati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

H.H. Dalai Lama in Paris-Bercy, France, Europe

Tibetan monk comes out from Punakha Dzong, the second oldest and most majestic dzong in Bhutan, Asia

A Tibetan woman in Champing Valley, Sichuan, China, Asia

Tibetan woman spinning, Qinghai Province, China, Asia

Portrait of a Tibetan woman wearing jewellery near Maqen, Qinghai Province, China, Asia

Tibetan woman of Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

A decorative Tibetan house in a remote Tibetan village called Jiaju Zangzhai, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Portrait of a young Tibetan family, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Tibetan Buddhist monks and exiled Tibetan people celebrate Lhosar, the Tibetan new year, Samtenling monastery, next to Boudha or Bodhnath stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia.

Tibetan monk reading, Paris, France, Europe

Dawn at Boudha, the Tibetan Buddhist stupa at Bodhnath, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Tibetan Buddhist ceremony to celebrate new year (Lhosar), Samtenling monastery, Bodhnath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Village in Ra valley above Tingri, Cho Oyu and Himalayas in distance, Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China, Asia

Tibetan arable farmers villages, Qamdo, Tibet, China, Asia

Buddhist stupas with Meili Snow Mountain peak in background, en route to the Tibetan border, Deqin, Shangri-La region, Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Village beside river on Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China, Asia

Panoramic image of Boudha, a large Tibetan stupa at Bodhnath, shortly before sunrise on the first day of Lhosar (Tibetan New Year), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Tibetan Buddhist stupa, Boudha, Bodhnath, lit by votive candles on a winter night, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Drummers at Devil Dances, Tibetan Yellow Hat Sect, Guomarr Monastery, Qinghai, China, Asia

Tibetan children, Tibet, China, Asia

A Tibetan woman in the Langtang Valley in Nepal, Asia

Yellow Sect Tibetan monk, Qinghai, China, Asia

Tibetan women dancing during secular festival, Tongren, Qinghai, China, Asia

Monk in meditative prayer before the Buddha eyes of Boudha, the Tibetan Buddhist stupa at Bodhnath, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Yonghe Gong Tibetan Buddhist Lama Temple, Beijing, China, Asia

Monks at Lelung Monastic Institute studying Tibetan, Namchi, South Sikkim, India, Asia

A Tibetan nunnery at Garze, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Old woman lighting butter lamps in a small temple on the north side of Boudha or Bodhnath stupa, Tibetan New Year (Lhosar), Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Young friendly Tibetan woman, Southern Tibet, China, Asia

Lalung La on Kathmandu-Lhasa road, Shisapangma snow peak in distance, Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China, Asia

A woman praying during Lhosar (Tibetan and Sherpa New Year festival), Bodhnath Stupa, Bagmati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Tibetan Harvest Festival, Qinghai, China, Asia

Mani stones printed with Tibetan prayers beside a track in Solu Khumbu, Nepal, Asia

Lhosar (Tibetan and Sherpa New Year festival), Bodhnath Stupa, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bagmati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Tibetan monk, Paris, France, Europe

Prayer wheels in Dhagpo Kagyu Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Saint-Leon sur Vezere, Dordogne, France, Europe

View of Tibetan plateau, from Ganden Monastery, near Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Tibetan, coming of age ritual, Qinghai, China, Asia

Detail of golden plaque of Yamantaka, Doorkeeper of the South, a Tantric Tibetan God, at Erdeni Dzu Monastery at Karakorum, Mongolia, Central Asia, Asia

Ta Gong Tibetan monastery, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Yaks on Tibetan pastures at 4000m, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

A Tibetan women from Mount Siguniang in Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Tibetan Khampa at Manianggo, Sichuan Province, China, Asia

Amitaba thangka. Buddha amitaba radiating rainbow light to sentient beings

Chatral senge dorje rinpoche seated on a tiger skin, yonglesho, Nepal

Khampa cowboys, tibe

A view of Swayambhu Stupa with full moon marks the 2554 years of Lord Gautam Buddha's birth. Nepalese and Tibetan pilgrims lit lamp at the Stupa with the hopes of peace in country. Despite of the on going political turmoil about non-formation of Constitution, Buddha Jayanti (Buddha's birthday) was celebrated throughout the nation in peace. Kathmandu, Nepal. 2010-May-27

H.h. 14th dalai lama. In early days most of individual tantric systems were kept separate from another, each regarded as a path to enlightment. here again passage of time brought about fusion cross-fertilization, a tradition of uniting various tantras emerged, at least on a simple level a daily meditation. India

Dharma chakra, jhokang roof, lhasa. Buddha shakyamuni considered a cultivated awareness of death impermanence to be fundamental to a happy healthy life. Tibet

Reflection. Tibetan peoples home, rajpur, india. India. I remember this body when it a childs as it gradually took form of a youth. very limb is twisted worn. It is my body, it delights even my eyes.,seventh dalai lama, meditations on ways of impermanence. tradition regards meditation on death impermanence only as a useful technique keeping mind intensely focused. It also sees it as a method unlocking deepest secrets of life

Potala palace seen through dharma chakra wheel from jhkokhang roof. Tibet

Darjeeling school children. School children at tibetan childrens village, darjeeling, india. A tibetan doesnt know tibetan language is like a bird with only wing

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrim take rickshaw to the main temple in bodhgaya. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Nomad birth. Today i born into family of buddhas; a child of buddhas iâ€šÃ„Ã´ve become today. -santideva. Tibet

Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims prostrating at the Jokhang temple, Barkhor, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrims walk through the entrance banner at main temple in bodhgaya. They carry kusha grass for offering. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Tibetan monk take rickshaw to the main temple in bodhgaya. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Tens of thousands of buddhist pilgrims from around the world traveled to bodhgaya, a town in northern india, to hear exiled tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama give the kalachakra-religious teachings. Pilgrims offer holy kusha grass (amrisso). Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, bihar, india

Vultures, drigung. bodies what we most attached to, says of monks. Thats offering ones body carries greatest merit. believe that should benefit other beings at every stage of ones life. After completion of powa ceremony, corpse is traditionally offered to great vultures lammergeiers that frequent charnel grounds. Vultures descend on flayed corpse. Offering bodies to birds is same as reciting mantras. It brings merit benefit to dead person as well as to family friends bring here. While cutting up corpse i to keep a pure compassionate mind. would feel if someone felt cutting up your body. -tomdenla. Tibet

Volunteer monks distribute tibetan butter salt milk tea to the kalachakra initiation attendants. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Gurla mandata. Tibet. Symbolizing interpenetration of phenomena, sacred sites in tibet often places where male female elements in landscape joined-a mountain a lake, example

Khyunglung, tibet. Chortens mark entrance to khyunglung (garuda valley), capital of zhangzhung prior to seventh or eighth century b.c

Panel discussion about melt down in tibet sponsored by tibetan woman's association, highlighting the future of nomads and the drastic resettelment measures they are undergoing by the chinese. And the effect of the construction of 30 storey high dams in tibet by the chinese. Michael buckley did a film "meltdown in tibet"

The 11th century monastery complex at Alchi. Within the simple exterior are exceptional murals thought to have been painted by artists from the Kashmir Valley. The murals are considered as some of the world's finest examples of Indo-Tibetan art. Ladakh, India

Gurla mandata. Tibet. barkha plain stretches as clouds light gather above bonpo mountain tagri trawo, tiger-striped mountain, known on english maps by sanskrit name, gurla mandhata with rakshas glittering beyond expanse of pilgrim tents

Tibetan musicians perform at maha bodhi temple. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Pilgrims receive puriying essence blessings. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Volunteer monks make tibetan butter salt milk tea in gigantic vessel for the kalachakra initiation attendants. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Kailash, tibe

Tibetan spiritual leader hh dalai lama. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Pilgrim devotion. Kalachakra 2012, bodhgaya, india

This nomad women, adorned with amber, traveled from amdo, in eastern tibe

Dharmalshalla students from mezakhang (traditional tibetan school of medicine) picking plants as a practical exercise their class dealing with taxanomy of plants. Rhotang pass, manali, india

Kailash, tibe

Tibetan nomads from central tibet profitting from selling yartsa gunbu, covetted aphrodiasic propoerties sold to chinese vendors in lhasa

Tibetan interior: Tea tables and carpets arranged in the courtyard for a ceremony at Hemis Monastery. Ladakh, India

Tibetan pilgrims in devotion. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

Tibet (china) tibetan schoolboy gyantse

Landscape, tibe

Khyunglung chorten. Tibet. Chortens mark entrance to khyunglung (garuda valley), capital of zhangzhung prior to seventh or eighth century b.c

Dharmalshalla students from mezakhang (traditional tibetan school of medicine) picking plants as a practical exercise their class dealing with taxanomy of plants. Rhotang pass, manali, india

Volunteer monks make tibetan butter salt milk tea in gigantic vessel for the kalachakra initiation attendants. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

India tibetan refugee painting a religious thanka dharmsala

Tibetan Interior: Brightly colored tea tables and carpets in the courtyard of Hemis monastery following a ceremony and feast. Paintings on slate line the courtyard walls. Ladakh, India