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

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

Prayer wheels in Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Woman on pilgrimage, Ganden Monastery, Tibet, China, Asia

View over Yamdrok Lake one of the three largest sacred lakes in Tibet, Tibet, China, Asia

Traditionally dressed Tibetans participating at a local festival, Gerze, Tibet, China, Asia

Selling prayer flags, Ganden Monastery, near Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Kumbum, Gyantse, Tibet, China, Asia

New Railway station, Beijing to Lhasa, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

View over the modern Chinese city, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

The dzong (fortress) of Gyantse, Tibet, China, Asia

Colourful flowers at the Summer Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Sculpture, Kumbum, Gyantse, Tibet, China, Asia

Exterior steps and entrance to the Tsurpu Buddhist monastery, seat of the Karmapa, at Nenang, Tibet, China, Asia

Turquoise Lake, Tibet, China, Asia

Amitaba thangka. Buddha amitaba radiating rainbow light to sentient beings

Torpu eppi. Every line in work-worn face tells a story. In mountains, is a sign of wisdom in of survival. Torpu eppi wears heirloom necklaces of coral, amber, turquoise, acquired on trading trips to tibet humla, north-west nepal

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

A solitary mask dancer appears wearing a frightening mask and silk brocade. they circle the courtyard with sprightly leaps. called protectors of faith, or dharmapdla, the origins of figures like these can be traced back to the pre-aryan peoples of india. originally known as yaksas (literally, a wondrous thing), they were tree spirits, who were accepted by the buddhists as defenders of the faith. in nepal and tibet, as in india, local deities were converted into protectors. a devotee of an alien sect devised a means to humiliate the buddha and his disciples. the buddha discovered it and succeeded in converting him to his teaching. due to lack of wisdom, the buddha remarked, some could not realize the goodness of his disciples and he compared the ignorant to the blind and the wise to those who have eyes.nobody is condemned in buddhism, for greatness is latent even in the seemingly lowliest just as lotuses spring from muddy ponds. -the dhammapada. solu khumbu, nepal

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

Khampa cowboys, tibe

North face, Mount Everest, 8848m, Tibet, China, Asia

Potala palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and city, Lhasa, Tibet, China, Asia

Aerial view of Samye monastery, Tibet, China, Asia

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

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

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

11th generation practicing amchi tsampha ngawang shows dragon bone used treating broken bones sticks to tongue. He treats patients throughout kali gandaki region is very active with training other amchis from over tibet, nepal mongolia

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"

Tibet (china) chinese convoy entering lhasa

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

Portrait of a village woman wearing fur trimmed hat, Tibet, China, Asia

Kailash, tibe

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

Tibet mendicant lhasa

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

Kailash, tibe

Tibetan pilgrims in devotion. Kalachakra initiation in bodhgaya, india

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

Tingri, Tibet, China, Asia

Landscape, tibe

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

Technology men radios, samye, tibet

Tibet (china) tibetan schoolboy gyantse

Tibet of gandeng monastery

Tibetan Yak Herder and Yak. Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain Yaks. Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Sun Rise, Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas Tibet

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Sun Rise, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Sun Rise, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Moon, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Sun Rise, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Glacier River, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Traditional Building and flowers. Mountains. Himalayas, Tibet.

River. Tibet.

Tibetan Lady. Mountain and Clouds.Traditional Dress, Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain Campsite. Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain Glacier.River and clouds, Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain River. Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

River. Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain Campsite. Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Flowers, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Lady. Mountain and Clouds.Traditional Dress, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Sun Rise, Himalayas, Tibet.

Tibetan Mountain and Clouds. Valley River, Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain River. Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

River. Tibet.

River. Tibet.

Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Mountain and Clouds. Himalayas, Tibet.

Prayer flags hanging in tree

Local people inside a house in Gyantse village or Gyangze town, Tibet, China. Located in the northeast of Gyantse at 3900 meters above sea level. Pelkor Chode Monastery, or rather Palcho Monastery in Tibetan language means auspicious monastery. It was first built in early 15th century and took 10 years to complete. Because it was built when different religious sectors conflicted neck and neck in Tibet, Sakyapa, Kadampa and Gelukpa of Tibetan Buddhism coexist in it. Each religious sector has five to six Dratsang schools in the monastery.

La Ken La pass or Laken pass at 5190 metres on the road to remote Nam Tso Lake Tibet. Namtso Lake Tibet China. Prayer flags next to the base of Mount Nyenchen Tanglha 7111 meters high, Tibet China. One of the holy mountains for Tibetans. The Nyenchen Tanglha is the highest peak of the Nyainqentanglha mountain. It is located near Lhasa, on the Qinghai-Tibet paved road. It is surrounded by grassy plains from Damshung to the south and to the picturesque sacred Nam Tso Lake (4,700 m, one of the largest lakes in the world) in the north.

Namtso lake or Nam tso lake in Tibet China. Nam Tso Lake is the second largest lake in Tibet, and one of the most famous places on the "Roof of the World". The lake itself is located at an altitude of 4,718 m, and has an area of 1,920 km². This lake is the largest of the lakes in the Tibet Autonomous Region, although it is not the largest on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, a title that belongs to Lake Qinghai, more than twice the area of Namtso, which is more than 1,000 km, in the northeast, in Qinghai province.

La Ken La pass or Laken pass at 5190 metres on the road to remote Nam Tso Lake Tibet. Namtso Lake Tibet China. Prayer flags next to the base of Mount Nyenchen Tanglha 7111 meters high, Tibet China. One of the holy mountains for Tibetans. The Nyenchen Tanglha is the highest peak of the Nyainqentanglha mountain. It is located near Lhasa, on the Qinghai-Tibet paved road. It is surrounded by grassy plains from Damshung to the south and to the picturesque sacred Nam Tso Lake (4,700 m, one of the largest lakes in the world) in the north.

Tsepak Lhakhang Monastery. Lhasa Tibet China. Outside of Ramoche Temple. The women make a procession around the temple to ask the god of longevity Cherisi chepal to have a good delivery, or old people to pray to him.

A Nomad Girl near Lake Manasarovar in Central Tibet

Potala palace, former Dalai Lama residence in Lhasa in Tibet. The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa, in Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and is a World Heritage Site since 1994.

Lhasa Drepung Monastery Shoton festival or Shodon Festival with the unrolling of the huge thangka, a silk painting depicting Buddha Lhasa Tibet. Yogurt festival.

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Portrait of Young Tibetan boy in traditional costume next to Potala palace Lhasa Tibet China

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Laughing tibetan monks, Qinghai, China, Asia

Tibetan woman with prayer wheel, Lhasa, Tibet, Asia

Potala palace under clouded sky, Lhasa, Tibet, Asia

Tibetan Buddhism, religious Cham mask dance at the important Gelugpa monastery of Kumbum, Huangzhong, Xinning, Qinghai province, formerly known as Kokonur, Tibet, China, Asia

Mani wall, Mani stone, Dudh Kosi valley, Solukhumbu, Khumbu, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Tibetan pilgrims throwing prayer notes into the air, ceremony at Namtso Lake, Heavenly Lake, Tibetan, China, Asia

Traditionally dressed woman on the festival of the tribes in Gerze, Western Tibet, Asia

Mani wall, Mani stone, Dudh Kosi valley, Solukhumbu, Khumbu, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Pilgrim and Tibetan monks refilling the brass bow with yak butter, Samye Monastery, Tibet, China, Asia