Kham and Amdo - 4
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Kham and Amdo - East Tibet part 4 - 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.
Buying and selling Yartsa Gunbu in Dzato town
Buying and selling Yartsa Gunbu (དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ་) (Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis) in Dzato town. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi, Sàhūténg). Kham (Qinghai).
Trading Yartsa Gunbu in Dzato town
Trading Yartsa Gunbu (དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ་) (Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis) in Dzato town. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi, Sàhūténg). Kham (Qinghai).
A fruiting body of Yartsa Gunbu
A fruiting body of Yartsa Gunbu (དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ་) (Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis). Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi, Sàhūténg). Kham (Qinghai).
Making cheese from yak milk. Nomad family, Namsai
Making cheese from yak milk. Nomad family, Namsai. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi). Kham (Qinghai).
Getting the yaks ready for the night
Getting the yaks ready for the night. Nomad camp, Namsai. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi). Kham (Qinghai).
Milking the dris (female yaks) in the morning
Milking the dris (female yaks) in the morning. Nomad camp, Namsai. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi). Kham (Qinghai).
Yaks coming home in the evening
Yaks coming home in the evening. Nomad camp, Namsai. Dzato (རྫ་སྟོད) (Zadoi). Kham (Qinghai).
An old lady visiting the Chodrag Monastery
An old lady visiting the Chodrag Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
Visiting nun in a hermit’s cave near the Chodrag Monastery
Visiting nun in a hermit’s cave near the Chodrag Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
Three women spins a large prayer wheel near the Chodrag Monastery
Four women spins a large prayer wheel near the Chodrag Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
A man visiting the Chodrag Monastery
A man visiting the Chodrag Monastery Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
Inside the Chodrag Monastery. Buddha Shakyamuni in the top center
Inside the Chodrag Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Buddha Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha, in the top center. Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
Statues to be installed in the Chodrag Monastery
Statues to be installed in the Chodrag Monastery (Juela Si, Juerang Si). Chodrag (Gyobrag) (Juela Xiang). Kham (Qinghai).
Horses running on the hill
Horses running on the hill. Near Sharda (Xangda) town. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Nomad camp between Sharda and the Tana Monastery
Nomad camp between Sharda and the Tana Monastery. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
The Tana Monastery
The Tana Monastery (Tana Senge Namdzong Monastery) (བྱང་རྟ་རྣ་དགོན།). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A lady visiting the Tana Monastery
A lady visiting the Tana Monastery (Tana Senge Namdzong Monastery) (བྱང་རྟ་རྣ་དགོན།). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nun from at the Gebchak Nunnery
A nun from at the Gebchak Nunnery (Gechak Nunnery). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A small shrine with carved rocks in a small village near the Gebchak Nunnery
A small shrine with carved rocks in a small village near the Gebchak Nunnery (Gechak Nunnery). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nomad camp between Sharda and the Tana Monastery
A nomad camp not far from the Gebchak Nunnery (Gechak Nunnery). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Inside a nomad family’s black tent
Inside a nomad family’s black tent. Not far from the Gebchak Nunnery (Gechak Nunnery). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Having some yogurt in a nomad family’s black tent
Having some yogurt in a nomad family’s black tent. Not far from the Gebchak Nunnery (Gechak Nunnery). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Children in a nomad camp not far from Sharda
Children in a nomad camp not far from Sharda (Xangda) town. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nomad camp not far from Sharda
Milking a dri (female yak). A nomad camp not far from Sharda (Xangda) town. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Prayer flags, chorten and mani stones near the Gar Monastery
Prayer flags, chorten and mani stones near the Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling, Gari Si) (མགར་དགོན). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Boy with lollipop near the Gar Monastery
Boy with lollipop near the Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling, Gari Si) (མགར་དགོན). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
The Gar Monastery
The Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling) (མགར་དགོན) (Gari Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Some rain coming near the Gar Monastery
Some rain coming near the Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling) (མགར་དགོན) (Gari Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
After then the rain. Gar Monastery
After then the rain. Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling) (མགར་དགོན) (Gari Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
After the rain. View from the Gar Monastery
After the rain. View from the Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling) (མགར་དགོན) (Gari Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A lady is passing a row of chortens
A lady is passing a row of chortens (stupas) in the morning. Gar Monastery (Gar Gon, Gar Gon Jangchub Choling) (མགར་དགོན) (Gari Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Nuns with mobile phone at the Gar Nunnery
Nuns with mobile phone at the Gar Nunnery (Gargön Ne Dechen Tsal). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Nunnery kitchen, Gar Nunnery
Nunnery kitchen, Gar Nunnery (Gargön Ne Dechen Tsal). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Mother and child. Gar Nunnery
Mother and child. Gar Nunnery (Gargön Ne Dechen Tsal). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A monastery seen on the way to the Tsechu Monastery
A monastery seen on the way to the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A nun lights butter lamps in the Tsechu Monastery
A nun lights butter lamps in the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Two nuns are lighting butter lamps in the Tsechu Monastery
Two nuns are lighting butter lamps in the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Building new chortens at the Tsechu Monastery
Building new chortens (stupas) at the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A woman walks past a row of chortens at the Tsechu Monastery
A woman is walking past a row of chortens (stupas) while circling the hill of mani stones at the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A woman walks past a row of chortens at the Tsechu Monastery
A woman is walking past a row of chortens (stupas) while circling the hill of mani stones at the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
A woman is circling the hill of mani stones at the Tsechu Monastery
A woman is circling the hill of mani stones at the Tsechu Monastery (Tshebchu Monastery) (Caijiu Si). Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
View from Jamar Waka hot spring
View from Jamar Waka hot spring (Kyichuwarka hot spring), near Waka (Warka) village. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
Walking to school in the morning. Waka village
Walking to school in the morning. Waka (Warka) village near Jamar Mani. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).
People circumambulating Jamar Mani
People circumambulating the hill of mani stones at Jamar Mani. Nangchen (ནང་ཆེན) (Nangqen), Kham (Qinghai).