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A female Tibetan construction worker. An older Tibetan construction worker. A Tibetan man wearing a chuba and holding a rosary. An 11 year old Tibetan boy. A 14 year old Tibetan girl. A Tibetan woman behind the monastery. A statue of ? in Derge Monastery's Assembly Hall. A young boy threading pages at the Derge Publishing House.
A man binding book pages. A young boy threading pages. A young boy threading pages. Men smoothing the edges of texts. The vise that holds the texts to be cut. The blade that cuts the paper. Men smoothing the edges of texts. A worker making ink.
A worker making ink.  A worker making ink. A worker making ink. Workers curing wood blocks used in making traditional Tibetan texts. Workers making prints from wood blocks on pages dyed yellow. A worker printing pages from a wood block. A worker printing pages from a wood block. Workers printing pages from a wood block.
Close up of a wood block for a page from �The Collected Texts of the Ancients.� A roller used for pressing pages onto inked wood blocks. Tibetan woman with rosary in left hand. Tibetan woman with turquoise hair ornament. Pilgrims circumambulating the Derge Publishing House. David Germano, visting American Professor of Tibetan Studies, and the Manager of the Derge  Publishing House. Printing of traditional Tibetan texts using woodblocks, ink, and paper. Printing of traditional Tibetan texts using woodblocks, ink, and paper.

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