Tibet Continues to Pray

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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A Tibetan woman with her baby wrapped up on her back circumambulating the Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet. For Tibetans bearing a child is an act of conscious intention that involves seven distinct stages - and starts before conception.

Traveling from Zhangmu (Nepal-Tibet border) to the Tibetan capital - Lhasa you can see road workers all along the Friendship Highway. The Chinese industrialization has affected Tibet a great deal. But despite the Chinese government attempts to settle Chinese population across the Tibetan Plateau, the Roof of the World still remains a place where only the Tibetans can survive its harsh climate conditions. A Tibetan boy holding the hand of his father who works on the road construction, Tibet.

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The Tashilhunpo Monastery is one of the main centers of the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat order of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a young monk in his ceremonial yellow hat. Tashilhunpo, Shigatse, Tibet.

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Tibet Continues to Pray

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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