Kham and Amdo - 2
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Kham and Amdo - East Tibet part 2 - Qinghai
The historic and cultural Tibet is comprised of the three traditional provinces of Amdo to the north, Kham to the east and Ü-Tsang to the west.
Amdo is now split into the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu & Sichuan. Kham is largely incorporated into the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai. Ü-Tsang, which, together with parts of western Kham, is today referred to by China as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
The photographs below have all been captured outside TAR, in the two provinces of Kham and Amdo, in the eastern parts of Tibet.
Buddha Maitreya at the Rongwo Monastery
Buddha Maitreya, the future Buddha. Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Young boy at the Rongwo Monastery
Young boy at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Footprints at the Rongwo Monastery
Footprints at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Novice monk reading. Rongwo Gonchen Monastery
Novice monk reading. Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Thangka painting at the Shengeshong art school
Thangka painting at the Shengeshong art school. Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
One thousand armed Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery
Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig, སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས) with 1000 arms and 11 heads at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Monk at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery
A monk at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Two ladies visiting the the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery
Two ladies visiting the the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery (རོང་བོ་དགོན་ཆེན) (Lóngwù Sì), Repkong (Tongren). Amdo (Qinghai).
Collecting yak dung. Nomad's camp in Zêkog County
Collecting yak dung. Nomad's camp in Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
Young monk at a Monastery in Zêkog County
Young monk at a Monastery in Zêkog County / Tsekok (རྩེ་ཁོག་) (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
Two girls inside a black yak hair tent. Nomad's camp in Zêkog County
Two girls inside a black yak hair tent. Nomad's camp in Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
A girl at a Nomad's camp in Zêkog County
A girl at a Nomad's camp in Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
A girl at a Nomad's camp in Zêkog County
A girl at a Nomad's camp in Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
Two ladies in a nomad family in Zêkog County
Two ladies in a nomad family in Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
A lady in a nomad family. Zêkog County
A lady in a nomad family. Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
A lady in a nomad family. Zêkog County
A lady in a nomad family. Zêkog (རྩེ་ཁོག་) / Tsekok County (Zeku). Amdo (Qinghai).
A nomad's camp. Kawasumdo County
A nomad's camp. Kawasumdo County (ཀ་བ་སུམ་མདོ་) (Tongde County). Amdo (Qinghai).
Man, nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County
Man, nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County (ཀ་བ་སུམ་མདོ་) (Tongde County). Amdo (Qinghai).
A woman and a black tent at a nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County
A woman and a black tent at a nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County (ཀ་བ་སུམ་མདོ་) (Tongde County). Amdo (Qinghai).
A woman in a nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County
A woman in a nomad’s camp. Kawasumdo County (ཀ་བ་སུམ་མདོ་) (Tongde County). Amdo (Qinghai).
The Tosam Yonten Dargyeling Monastery
The Tosam Yonten Dargyeling (Serdzong) Monastery (Drakar Tredzong). Tsigorthang (Xinghai), Amdo (Qinghai).
Boy in a shop window. Near the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling Monastery
Boy in a shop window. Near the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling (Serdzong) Monastery (Drakar Tredzong). Tsigorthang (Xinghai), Amdo (Qinghai).
Turning the prayer wheels at the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling Monastery
A monk is turning the prayer wheels at the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling (Serdzong) Monastery (Drakar Tredzong). Tsigorthang (Xinghai), Amdo (Qinghai).
Painting a prayer wheel at the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling Monastery
Painting a prayer wheel at the Tosam Yonten Dargyeling (Serdzong) Monastery (Drakar Tredzong). Tsigorthang (Xinghai), Amdo (Qinghai).
The Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tosam Yonten Dargyeling Monastery
Manjushri is the bodhisattva of wisdom. Tosam Yonten Dargyeling (Serdzong) Monastery (Drakar Tredzong). Tsigorthang (Xinghai), Amdo (Qinghai).
A large prayer wheel at a monastery near Tsigorthang
Women turning large prayer wheels at a monastery near Tsigorthang. Amdo (Qinghai).
Lighting butter lamps at Gyanak Mani
Visitors are lighting butter lamps in one of the chapels at Gyanak Mani. Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
A monk keeps the butter lamps burning at Gyanak Mani
A monk keeps the butter lamps burning at Gyanak Mani. Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
A boy turns a prayer wheel at Gyanak Mani
A boy turns a prayer wheel at Gyanak Mani. Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
A village near the Domkar Monastery, Jyekundo
A village near the Domkar Monastery. Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
The kitchen at Domkar Monastery, Jyekundo
The kitchen at Domkar Lhundrub Dechen Sadon Chokhorling, Domkar Monastery (Dangka si). Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
A small hut with small statues of Buddhist deities
A small hut close to the sky burial site with small statues of Buddhist deities that can assist in a safe voyage through the space between death and rebirth, the Bardo. Batang, near Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
Mural from Old Trangu Monastery
Mural from Old Trangu Monastery (ཁྲ་འགུ་དགོན།), near Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
Chortens, Old Trangu Monastery
Chortens (stupas), Old Trangu Monastery (ཁྲ་འགུ་དགོན།), near Jyekundo (Yushu), Kham (Qinghai).
Four men prostrating all the way to Lhasa
Four men prostrating all the way to Lhasa. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Two men in a group of four prostrating all the way to Lhasa
Two men in a group of four prostrating all the way to Lhasa. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nunnery near Sharda
A nunnery near Sharda (Xangda) town. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Collecting yak dung in the morning
Collecting yak dung in the morning. On the road to the Surmang Namgyal Tse Monastery (Zurmang, ཟུར་མང་དགོན་པ) (Su Mang Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Morning view from the road to the Surmang Monastery
Morning view from the road to the Surmang Namgyal Tse Monastery (Zurmang, ཟུར་མང་དགོན་པ) (Su Mang Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nun cooking food in her black tent
A nun cooking food in her black tent. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
People waiting for head lamas
People waiting for head lamas. Chindu County (ཁྲི་འདུ་རྫོང་།), Kham (Qinghai).