Lhasa, Tibet
ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས།

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Tibetan women praying, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Potala Palace པོ་ཏ་ལ up close, Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004


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Tibetan monks touring the Potala Palace པོ་ཏ་ལ , Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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¥ 70.00元 ticket for the Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet — November 2004


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White pigeons in Potala square, Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004


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Tibetan family, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Lama image, Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Potala Square, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Monks, arriving to Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Prayer wheels to be spun for blessings, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Praying on Barkhor square བར་སྐོར་ in front of the Jokhang ཇོ་ཁང།, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Potala Palace reflections, Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004

Tibet is perfect in late November, a bit cold in the shade, but the most intense skies and colors. This was before they built the train there.


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Tibetan monks, Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, in the hills North of Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004

We took bikes to this monastary. You can rent the bikes throughout town or from you hotel. It’s only about one and half miles to the temple from the center of Lhasa, but considering Lhasa is at 11,450 ft (3,490 m) you are going to be winded. It’s definitely worth the trip, and be sure to do the circut around the temple, clockwise, and then hike up into the hills behind to see the Tibetan scriptures painted on rocks.


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Flag alley, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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The Potala Palace པོ་ཏ་ལ in Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004


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Praying on Barkhor square བར་སྐོར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Lama image, Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Debating and gesturing monks, Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Tibetan scriptures painted on rocks behind the Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Prayer wheels to be spun for blessings, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Mother and daughter in the Potala, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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View from my hotel, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30. 2004


Debating and gesturing monks, Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Pilgrim at the Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Tibetan scriptures painted on rocks behind the Sera Monastery སེ་ར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 30, 2004


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Barkhor square བར་སྐོར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Praying on Barkhor square བར་སྐོར་ in front of the Jokhang ཇོ་ཁང།, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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View of the Potala Palace པོ་ཏ་ལ, Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004


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Rock art behind the Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet — November 2004


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Barkhor square བར་སྐོར་, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Cute sign, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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View of the mountains surrounding Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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Devout Buddhists prostrating in prayer, Jokhang temple, Lhasa, Tibet — November 2004


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Wall inside the Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet — November 29, 2004


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On the streets of Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004


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Potala Palace པོ་ཏ་ལ desaturated, Lhasa, Tibet — November 28, 2004

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