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  • TIBET, China. Ancient fort in southeastern Tibet.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo River, Village above Tsangpo Gorge in southeast Tibet.
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  • TIBET. Gnu-like takin (Budorcas taxicolor) after swimming in torrential rapid of Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in Tsangpo Gorge, one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • TIBET, CHINA. Village beside Yarlung Tsangpo River (called the Brahmaputra in India), just above Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Tibetan Buddhist monks & devotees outside of largest gompa (temple) at Tashilumpo Monastery, Shigatse, seat of the Panchen Lama, 2nd holiest in Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. 8-meter-high Nietang Buddha, 40km SE of Lhasa, largest cliff statue in Tibet, depicting Sakyamuni meditating under Bodhi tree.
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  • TIBET. Gnu-like takin (Budorcas taxicolor) after swimming in torrential rapid of Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in Tsangpo Gorge, one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Tibetan Buddhist devotees enter gompa (temple) at Tashilumpo Monastery in Shigatse, home of Panchen Lama, 2nd holiest in Tibet
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist devotee spins prayer wheels at fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, near Tsedang, the oldest palace in Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Tibetan Buddhist monk tends yak butter lamps at Samye Monastery, one of oldest in Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Tibetan Buddhist devotees prostrate & pray in front of Jokhang Temple, holiest site in Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Tibetan Buddhist devotees prostrate and pray in Barkhor Plaza in front of Jokhang Temple, one of Tibet's holiest sites.  Potala background.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Tibetan Buddhist devotees pray and make yak butter offerings at chapel inside Jokhang Temple, holiest site in Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Potala palace, former home of Dalai Lama, viewed from Jokhang Temple (holiest in Tibet), where gilt sculptures adorn the roof. Photo from 1986. Today modern Chinese buildings clutter the view.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist devotees pray & prostrate in front of Lhasa's Jokhang Temple, one of Tibet's holiest sites.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, the oldest castle remaining in Tibet, atop a hill near Tsedang.
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  • Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China. Tibetan Buddhist nuns chant and pray in a temple at their nunnery.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Nomadic herding family in a snowstorm south of Lhasa.
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  • Swarthy young men admire passing girls at a village festival near Lhasa in Tibet.
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  • An American traveler entertains Tibetan youngsters with counting and his computer in Mainling, Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Meat merchant on a pedicab rides his wares to market past Lhasa's Potala Palace, former home of Dalai Lama.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Village boy in Lunang Valley, probably of Memba descent.
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  • A village boy, probably of Memba descent, stands in his village the in Lunang Valley, of Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Villagers use yaks to drag logs for bulding construction in Kykar.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  A farmer of Menba descent, carrying wares to market, relaxes in dense hardwood jungle near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Village children in Gyala.  Mt. Namcha Barwa bkg.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Boatman rows pilgrims to holy waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Tibetan Buddhist traveler prays at shrine by holy waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • Tibet, People's Republic of China. A village with towers east of Lhasa.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  A farmer of Menba descent, carrying wares to market, relaxes in dense hardwood jungle near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba Grandmother & grandson play with puppy in Payi village near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge (eastern Himalaya). Note Buddhist prayer wheel.
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  • Young Tibetans in Bayi village pound barley flour in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • Porters cross a suspension bridge over the Po Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Young father & son, reading at home in Pe village, near Tsangpo River Gorge.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Husband & wife at home in Trube village, near Kyikar.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Avalanche debris from 7150m Mt. Gyala Pelri pours into Yarlung Tsanpo River in one of world's deepest gorges (eastern Himalaya).
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  • Avalanche debris from a glacier on 23,930-foot Gyala Peri tumbles into the Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge-one of the world’s deepest canyons- in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Yarlung Tsangpo R iver (Brahmaputra) flows below 7150m Mt. Gyala Pelri in one of world's deepest canyons (eastern Himalaya).
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  • Explorer David Breashears watches as expedition porters heat water over a campfire in the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge, Himalaya Mountains, Tibet, China. Explorer above rapids in one of world's remotest and deepest gorges.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, Trekker fords rain-swollen side stream from Namcha Barwa Glacier Himalaya
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  • The Tsangpo (aka Brahmaputra) River tumbles into the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • TIBET, Himalaya. Yarlung Tsangpo River <br />
(Brahmaputra), below 25,446' Mt.Namcha Barwa in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • Expedition porters cook lunch under a tarp on a steep trail during a monsoon downpour in the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Boatman rows pilgrims to holy waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Boatman rows pilgrims to holy waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons.
    TS 1235.jpg
  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Sacred waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons (Himalaya).
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Tibetan Buddhist traveler prays at shrine by holy waterfall in one of earth's deepest canyons.
    TS 1174.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge.  Tibetan Buddhist lama on pilgrimage to sacred waterfall in this deep Himalayan canyon.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. A hunter (poacher) from Kykar village who augments his income & larder shooting takin, musk deer & other wildlife.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. A hunter (poacher) from Kykar village loads his venerable weapon to shoot takin or musk deer.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, Village near Pe, at upper end of one of earth's deeper gorges.
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  • A waterfall rushes past a rock formation that looks  like the Buddha at a shrine near the upper end of Tibet’s Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons. The almost impenetrable region north of this - where the river flows between two 23,000+ foot mountains - is a feared, but sacred place Tibetan Buddhists know as Pemako.
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  • A rhododendron bush blooms beside the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in the Tsangp Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • Himalaya, Tibet, China. Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags atop pass on Tibetan plateau.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist monk & pilgrim beneath sculptures of Bodhisattvas at Palkhor Monastery, Gyantse.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Tibetan Buddhist clergy chanting, praying, drumming & ringing bells under prayer wheels outside Palkhor Monastery in Gyantse.
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  • A Chinese couple stands in the door of their new roadside restaurant and truck stop between Nyingchi and Lhasa, Tibet.  The painted sign reads in both Tibetan (above) and Chinese.
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  • Lunang Valley, Tibet, China.  Firewood stacked by house.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Villagers in Lunang Valley make leather straps with simple tanning equipment.
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  • Fortress-like Yumbu Lakang temple, the oldest dwelling in Tibet, above barley fields near Tsedang.
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  • Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China.	Sera Monastery overlooks Lhasa before mass influx of Chinese migrants.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Potala Palace, former abode of Dalai Lama & site of many revered Tibetan Buddhist temples. Prayer flags foreground.
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  • Lhasa, Tibet, China.  Potala Palace, former abode of the exiled Dalai Lama, reflects in a pool in 1986. The view is now cluttered with modern Chinese structures.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. The Potala, home of the now-exiled Dalai Lama, reflects in an adjacent pool in 1986. The view is now cluttered with modern Chinese structures.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. A woman milks her cow on outskirts of the city.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Boatman carries a yak-skin coracle used to ferry people across Lhasa River.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims circle Jokhang Temple through Lhasa's Barkhor Bazaar in 1986.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Chinese shopkeeper sells skins of endangered leopards in Lhasa's Barkor Bazaar near the Jokhang Temple.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims circle Lhasa's Jokhang Temple through the Barkhor Bazaar (1986).
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Elderly Menba mother & son relax on porch in remote Payi village, near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya. Note Buddhist prayer wheel & rosary beads.
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  • Porters cross a suspension bridge over the Po Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet.
    TS 3044.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  Young father & son, reading at home in Pe village, near Tsangpo River Gorge.
    TS 2932.jpg
  • An elderly couple outside their house in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
    TS 2836.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge.  Tibetan Buddhist lama on pilgrimage to sacred waterfall in this deep Himalayan canyon.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Villagers lunch on shared tsampa bread, chili pepper paste & salty tea.
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  • TIBET, China. Buddhist "mani" (prayer) stones.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Menba woman from upper Tsangpo River Gorge, now a doctor, rests during trek back to her isolated village home.
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  • Forested cliffs lines the walls of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Farmer of isolated Menba ethnic group crosses Po Tsangpo River on cable bridge, near mouth of famed Tsangpo River Gorge.
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  • Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge, Himalaya, Tibet, People's Republic of China.	Impenetrable rain forest grows on cliffs barricading this forbidding canyon.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tsangpo River Gorge. Impenetrable jungle & cliffs at mouth of canyon between two 23,000+ foot Himalayan mountains.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba woman from Payi village, north of Tsangpo River Gorge, stretches skin of takin her husband shot in nearby jungle.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba woman from Payi village, north of Tsangpo River Gorge (Himalaya), cleans barley harvested from family fields.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Menba woman from Payi village, near Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya, chops fodder for her family's cattle.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Young Tibetan Buddhist man (a Menba) in remote village near Tsangpo River Gorge displays charm box with forbidden photo of Dalai Lama.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba villager eats lunch of roasted barley flour (tsampa) by home hearth in remote Payi, near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Elderly Menba mother & son relax on porch in remote Payi village, near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya. Note Buddhist prayer wheel & rosary beads.
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  • 23,930-foot Gyala Peri towers above the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • An expedition stops at a hunt looking into the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.  Bethind are ridges from Mounts Namcha Barwa and Gyala Peri.
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  • Descending from both the right and the left, alternating ridges of 25,531ft  (7782m) Namcha Barwa (L) and 23,930ft (7294m) Gyala Peri are divided by  in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Himalaya.  Sunrise on Mount  Gyala Peri (7150m), one of highest peaks in the eastern Himalaya.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Father & daughter at home in Pe village, near Tsangpo River Gorge.
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  • Home after two weeks in the jungle, a workaday Tibetan farmer describes his sometimes harrowing journey as a porter for a National Geographic  expedition into the almost impentrable Tsangpo River Gorge in southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • TIBET, Himalaya. Mt. Namcha Barwa (7756m), highest peak in E.Himalaya.
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  • An elderly couple outside their house in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • A mountaineer walk near Gyala Village  in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China. Behind is 23,930 ft  [Mount] Gyala Peri. The foot of 25,531′ Namche Barwa soars to the right.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Village children in Gyala.  Mt. Namcha Barwa bkg.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Avalanche debris from 7150m Mount Gyala Pelri pours into Yarlung Tsanpo River in one of world's deepest gorges (eastern Himalaya).
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  • Mountaineer David Breashears looks up at Mount Gyala Pheri towering over the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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