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- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- 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.
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- A ten foot prayer mill
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
- Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
- Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.
108 is the sacred number, since Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings are classified in 108 volumes. - A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
They were just as interested in us as we were in them! - A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
However in the front carved former pool table tops! - Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
- A nearly completed Mandala made of sand
that will be destroyed at completion and dispersed into a river. What is it with these Buddhists worshiping impermanence? - Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
- Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
- An orchid found in 4200m
- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang