Shigatse, Tibet
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ས་ཁུལ།

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Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Monks, Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Stick people, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004

I found these guys wandering the back alleys of Shigatse. In Tibet, and in much of Asia, people are often seen carrying, moving or otherwise relocating all types of heavy items. I cannot imagine how much these sticks weigh, but by judging on their size and the expression on these chaps’ faces, I cannot imagine they are light. In all their effort though, it’s amazing how people can just still smile and enjoy the task at hand.


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Local girl, Shigatse, Tibet — December 1, 2004


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Stairs, Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Feeling a bit like Lenny Kravitz, Shigatse, Tibet — December 1, 2004

I regret not buying this Tibetan jacket. The sellar wanted the equivalent of $100 US, an impulsive splurge indeed; too bad I did not stomach the cost.


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Enjoying the afternoon in the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་— December 2, 2004


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55元 ticket for the Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Goat heads for sale, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Painting in Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse — December 2, 2004


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Pilgrims in Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse — December 2, 2004


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Goat carcass for sale, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004

In the late-autumn and winter, store owners simply put their perishable items on the street. The cold outside acts as a giant, natural freezer. In fact, someone mentioned the shelf-life is one year because of the dry, cold weather in Shigatse.


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Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་— December 2, 2004


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Pilgrims walking around the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Candles in Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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View over Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Pilgrims, Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Inside the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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In front of the Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Painting in Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse — December 2, 2004


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Climbin down in Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་— December 2, 2004


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Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Shigatse street life, Tibet — December 1, 2004


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Stick people, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004


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Goat heads for sale, Shigatse, Tibet — December 2, 2004

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