Kham and Amdo - 3
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Kham and Amdo - East Tibet part 3 - Qinghai and Sichuan
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.
The Muya Golden Tower in Lhagang
The Muya Golden Tower (Muya Jin Pagoda). Mount Zhara Lhatse (Mount Yala, 5,820 m), in the background. Lhagang (Tagong) (ལྷ་སྒང་།). Kham (Sichuan).
The Muya Golden Tower in Lhagang
The Muya Golden Tower (Muya Jin Pagoda). Mount Zhara Lhatse (Mount Yala, 5,820 m), in the background. Lhagang (Tagong) (ལྷ་སྒང་།). Kham (Sichuan).
The sun is rising behind Mount Zhara Lhatse in Lhagang
The sun is rising behind Mount Zhara Lhatse (Mount Yala, 5,820 m) in Lhagang (Tagong) (ལྷ་སྒང་།). Kham (Sichuan).
Turning the prayer wheels in the morning sun, Lhagang
Turning the prayer wheels in the morning sun, Lhagang (Tagong) (ལྷ་སྒང་།). Kham (Sichuan).
Bird over Yarchen Gar
Bird over Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Bird over Yarchen Gar
Bird over Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Yarchen Gar entrance gate and prayer wheels
Yarchen Gar entrance gate and prayer wheels. Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar
Nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Bridge and nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar
Bridge and nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar
Bridge and nuns’ living quarters. Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Statue of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche). Yarchen Gar
At the top of a hill just above Yarchen Gar there is a towering golden statue of Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche. Padmasambhava was the Indian Buddhist master who introduced Tantric Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century. Padmasambhava is considered the Second Buddha by the Nyingma school, the oldest Buddhist school in Tibet.
Nomad camps, Yarchen Gar
Nomad camps, Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Nomad camps, Yarchen Gar
Nomad camps, Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Sunrise, Yarchen Gar
Sunrise, Yarchen Gar (ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་), Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling (Yaqing si). Kham (Sichuan).
Monk’s residents at the Palyul Monastery
Monk’s residents at the Palyul Monastery, Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling Monastery (Pelyül Gön) (དཔལ་ཡུལ་དགོན།) (Baiyü Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Stuffed yaks at the Dzongsar Monastery
Stuffed yaks at the Dzongsar Monastery (རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།) (Zōngsà Sì). Kham (Sichuan).
Stuffed yaks at the Dzongsar Monastery
Stuffed yaks at the Dzongsar Monastery (རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།) (Zōngsà Sì). Kham (Sichuan).
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press
Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Inspecting newly cleaned printing blocks. Derge Parkhang
Inspecting newly cleaned printing blocks. Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Cleaning printing blocks. Derge Parkhang
Cleaning printing blocks. Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Stacking paper for books. Derge Parkhang
Stacking paper for books. Derge Parkhang sutra printing press (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང།) (Dege yinjing yuan). Derge (Dege). Kham (Sichuan).
Reparing used printing blocks. Derge
Reparing used printing blocks. Derge (Dege) (སྡེ་དགེ). Kham (Sichuan).
Preparing food at a restaurant in Dzogchen village
Preparing food at a restaurant in Dzogchen village. Kham (Sichuan).
Dzogchen Rudam Orgyen Samten Choling Gonpa (Dzogchen Monastery)
Dzogchen Rudam Orgyen Samten Choling Gonpa (རྫོགས་ཆེན་དགོན།) (Dzogchen Monastery). Kham (Sichuan)
Chortens and monk, Manigango
Chortens (stupas) and monk, Manigango (མ་ཎི་གད་མགོ) (Mǎnígāngē). Kham (Sichuan).
Familly making Tshatshas
Tshatsha, a literal translation from a Sanskrit word which mean "copy" in English, stands for small clay sculptures cut from a mold, including mini-statues of Buddha, stupas or Buddhist scriptures. Usually, they are put inside large stupas or special shrines (tsha-kang). They can also be found on top of Mani stones flanked by prayer flags along tracks, on the revered snow-peaks or in sacred caves. The Tibetans carry them in small amulet boxes to guard against evil. Manigango (མ་ཎི་གད་མགོ) (Mǎnígāngē). Kham (Sichuan).
Monks at the Kandze Monastery
Monks in the assembly hall (dukhang) of the Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Monks at the Kandze Monastery
Monks in the assembly hall (dukhang) of the Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Monks at the Kandze Monastery having a meal
Monks having a meal in the assembly hall (dukhang) of the Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Monks at the Kandze Monastery
Monks in the assembly hall (dukhang) of the Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
A novice monk in the Kandze Monastery kitchen
A novice monk in the kitchen of the Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Monks at the monastery store. Kandze Monastery
Monks at the monastery store. Kandze Monastery (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Young novice monk at the Kandze Monastary
Young novice monk at the Kandze Monastary (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Buddha Maitreya at the Kandze Monastary
Buddha Maitreya at the Kandze Monastary (དཀར་མཛེས་དགོན་པ) (Ganzi Si). Kham (Sichuan).
Three nuns walking up the hill. Larung Gar Buddhist Academy
Three nuns walking up the hill. Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).
A girl is praying in front of the Jutrul stupa at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy
A girl is praying in front of the Jutrul stupa at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).
A girl is praying in front of the Jutrul stupa at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy
A girl is praying in front of the Jutrul stupa at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).