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Photographs in Lieberman Prints - Mustang Nepal

Sakya-Pa order lamas performing a ritual to protect a family's home from evil. Kitchen, preparing tsampa (parched barley, a Tibetan staple food) Sakya-Pa lama Tea time Mother and child in Thubchen gompa (watching us photographing the wall paintings) Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added) Bringing brushwood for starting cooking fires back into the village. Village historian in his study
Villager holding his prayer beads. Women weeding barley fields. Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added) Gompa school for tawas (boys receiving a Tibetan religious education, with modern subjects added) Women at entry gate to the village during the annual ceremony marking the renewal of prayer-flags. In Nima Wangdi's home, his relatives are gathering to decide on adoption of Lhapka Dolma, his infant daughter by Dawa Wangchu Sherpa. In Nima Wangdi's, a prosperous "horseman's" home. His 9-month old daughter, Lhakpa Dolma who was deaf, is being carried by her older sister. (Nima Wamgdi's wife died when the infant was 3 months old). Health worker in the only "health" facility in Lo Manthang, Nepal
Ahni Ahni (a lay Bhuddist nun) preparing Tibetan Tea

Lieberman Prints - Mustang Nepal in Topic


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