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Photographs in Personal Collections

Bon-Po lama in his gompa. Market day (Saturday) Lodgekeeper cooking on open fire Spectators at Kalachakra Initiation Rite conducted by the Dalai Lama Pounding mustard seeds to produce cooking oil. Buddhist nun Woman weeding barley fields Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added)
YAKS AND THEIR YOUNG, INNER DOLPO Threshing Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added) Pokara Informal school for sqautters children run by Child welfare Sciety in abandoned garage Horseman and horses on Sir-Sir La pass (5,200 meters) Kitchen corner of a one room apartment 10 feet by 8 feet, shared by 7 people. (one bed completion of Bon-Po protection ritual. Flocks (sheep and goats) of Lingshed village being taken out to graze Ladakh
Children and adults sleeping on the streets of Kathmandu Bon-Po monk - protection ritual. Geshe Ngawang Jangchup and monks in discussion class at the National Traditional Arts and Crafts School Women at entry gate to the village during the annual ceremony marking the renewal of prayer-flags. Children and adults sleeping on the streets of Kathmandu Chortens in village Bon-Po lama's dance - protection ritual.
Geshe Ngawang Jangchup conducting a teaching, Lingshed Gompa, 1991 Mother, father, grandmother in kitchen Jonkri (shaman) exorcising evil spirits to cure a sick man Children and adults sleeping on the streets of Kathmandu Flocks, village in Ladakh Sister and brother in their home after ritual Jonkri (Shamen) in village of Dulai -- he conducted the ceremony drected at driving out evil spirits from a sick villager Visnumati river squatter's settlement

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