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Lhasa '13

One week in Lhasa
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Green hills over Lhasa
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Green hills over Lhasa

  • Green hills over Lhasa
  • Golden roofs of the Jokhang Monastery
  • Butcher stand in Lhasa. Look at all that yummy cow offal! And complete heads! Mmmmmmm
  • Painted mountainside on the climb up to Drepung Monastery.
  • Drepung Monastery. At its peak, it held up to 10,000 monks, and was probably the largest monastery in the world.
  • There are about 300 monks at Drepung Monastery now.
  • Chinese tourists get a photo with "traditionally dressed" Tibetan girls at the Norbulingka Summer Palace of the Dalai Lamas.
  • Monks debating at Sera Monastery. The interlocuters stomp and smack their hands because one of the Dalai Lamas felt that the previously sedentary debates were bad for monks' health.
  • A questioner making a point by smacking his hands.
  • Pilgrims and locals circumambulate the Jokhang Monastery on the Barkhor route amidst clouds of incense.
  • Potala palace, home of the Dalai Lamas
  • Climbing the steps of Potala
  • Main entry to the White Palace (Podrang Karpo) at Potala.
  • Potala palace from the side.
  • Courtyard of the Jokhang Monastery in central Lhasa. The second most holy site for Gelugpa buddhists. (Right behind Potala Palace).
  • View of Potala Palace over Barkhor Square from the roof of the Jokhang Monastery.
  • A bell or monument or something, on top of the Jokhang Monastery.
  • Spicy yak pizza!
  • Nuns and Chinese tourists in front of the Jokhang Monastery in Barkhor Square
  • Pilgrims prostrate themselves in front of the Jokhang Monastery
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