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Photographs in Personal Collections

Sakya-Pa order lamas performing a ritual to protect a family's home from evil. Weeding potato fields Child from Visnumati river area at Bal Kendra YAKS AND THEIR YOUNG, INNER DOLPO Sir-Sir La pass (5,200 meters) Kitchen, preparing tsampa (parched barley, a Tibetan staple food) Dumji Festival - burning tormas which have collected evil spirits Yak train on the route from Namche Bazaar on to Tynbocche gompa and Everest
Sakya-Pa lama Mother and child In the barley fields Tea time Mani wall along trail Mother and child in Thubchen gompa (watching us photographing the wall paintings) Mother and child Dumji Festival, rush to receieve "Om" blessings in Pangboche gomPa during Dumji festival Porters passing Tyngboche gompa
Porter carrying plywood (approximately 100 Kg) on trail that climbs up 600 meters to Temgboche Gompa, Khumbu region, Nepal Mani walls Showing off baby. Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added) Boy at his home sited along the footpath to Namche Bazar Bringing brushwood for starting cooking fires back into the village. Child, Charikarka village below Lukla, with one of the "auspicious" Tibetan Buddhist on the doorcovering, Khumbu region, Nepal Chorten and mani wall approaching Pangboche village, Ama Dablam in Background
Monks in procession during Mani Rimdu festival Village historian in his study Child porter with 80 kg load on route to Namche Bazaar Street vegtable vendor, Kathmandu Rock engraved with prayers The sole young woman in Shey village, juniper branches stacked behind her are the only fuel other than dung. She visited our camsite every day since we had 5 young men with us. (she has a copy of this print, which we brought in1997.) A better off familiy in their spacious one-room appartment Bon-Po lama shoots torma that absorbed evil spirits in protection ritual .

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