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The Shrine Pond with cobra canopy prayer flags and stupa, Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Norbulingka Tibetan Institute of Tibetan Arts and Culture, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, Asia

The Shrine Pond and Monastery Gateway, Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims on the kora, walking around Mount Kailas (Mount Kailash), which is sacred to Buddhists and Hindus, Tibet, China, Asia

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

Sacred Tibetan Yamdrok Tso Lake (Yamzho Yumco) with mountains in background beside the Friendship Highway, Tibet, China, Asia

Head and shoulders of Thupten, a Tibetan thangka painter, tangka paintings are used in Buddhist meditation, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

The Stupa from the Peace Garden, Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nomad birth. Today i born into family of buddhas; a child of buddhas i’ve become today. -santideva. Tibet

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

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

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

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

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

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"