Close up of the blue Primula sp.
Fritillaria bulbs put in the sun for drying.
An orchid, maybe an Orchis
An Amanita close to A. pantherina near Dabpa, Chinese Daocheng.
Lilium lophophorum
Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
Lilium lophophorum, a small Lily around 15 to 30cm tall
Aletris nana
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.