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- A group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
- Asco cluster Nyade
Asco cluster Nyade ed S - A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started. - Shop keepers with dried Saussurea medusa et al., in Chinglish known as snow lotus
- Tibetan farmers cutting their barley with scythes
- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- A traditional bridge, they becoming rare, concrete is just tougher!
- Close up of the blue Primula sp.
- A blue Primula
- Fritillaria bulbs put in the sun for drying.
They are a major medicinal, often used against a cold among other applications - An Amanita close to A. pantherina near Dabpa, Chinese Daocheng.
- An orchid, maybe an Orchis
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Lilium lophophorum
- Aletris nana
- Lilium lophophorum, a small Lily around 15 to 30cm tall
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- The Garuda (Tibetan: Khyung), biding down on a snake, will be mounted behind the head of the Buddha statue.
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.