- Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
- 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! - Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- A ten foot prayer mill
- 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.
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- 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.
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Lilium lophophorum, a small Lily around 15 to 30cm tall
- Aletris nana
- Lilium lophophorum
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- An orchid, maybe an Orchis
- An Amanita close to A. pantherina near Dabpa, Chinese Daocheng.