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  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman walks in an apartment courtyard, near the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Solar water heaters in an apartment courtyard near the Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • An elderly man with a prayer wheel and prayer beads at a small monastery near the Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A Buddhist stupa above the Dingha Valley, Tibet.
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  • Two monks speak outside the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • The plaza in front of the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, seen from the roof of the Monastery.
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  • A yak grazes during a hail storm near the  Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County. Yaks are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.
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  • Artists paint Buddhist mandala paintings in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Prayer flags at the Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County.
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  • Tsul Tim Lhamu, head nun at the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery, Lhasa, Tibet, taking her early morning walk around the city. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Monks and pilgrims prepare steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • People walk on a busy street in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Candles illuminate part of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Buddhist nuns read and go through their daily routines at the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • The Potala Palace (right) towers over a section of the city of Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Children play with water outside their home in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Monks speak outside the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • An aerial view of the river valley near Lhasa Tibet, in the Himalayas mountains.
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  • A Buddhist pilgrim prostrates herself and prays in front of the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • People shop for vegetables at a market in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A bucket of yak milk outside nomadic yak herder Karsal's home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A view of the mustard fields in bloom in the Dingha Valley on the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's son wrangles the calves so that Phurba can milk their mothers near their tent on the Tibetan Plateau.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal and his wife Phurba eat inside their handmade yak wool tent home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A  yak eats from a bowl outside the tent of Tibetan nomadic herder Karsal. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Fresh yak dung is drying on the rock, to be used as cooking and heating fuel since there are very few trees on the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba in the kitchen of their home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A yak pauses to defecate while it grazes in the high altitude pastures of the Tibetan Plateau. Yak are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population. Wikipedia.
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  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • A monk lights candles as he prepares for prayer at a Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • The head monk at his partially rebuilt monastery with his typical day's worth of food in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 4,900 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 158 pounds.
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  • Nomadic herder Karsal pours butter tea onto his breakfast tsampa in his tent on the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A solar panel and satellite dish are seen outside the handmade yak-wool tents Tibetan nomadic herders make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Yak dung, an important source of fuel for nomadic herders in the Tibetan Plateau, is spread out to dry in the sun outside Karsal's tent home.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The dung-fired hearth in Karsal's kitchen at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The nomadic herder's family uses dung collected from the yak and dri pastures for cooking and keeping their house warm.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, has milked one of the family's dris in the early morning at their tent on the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The male yaks remain free at night, grazing at higher elevations, and the dris and their calves are tethered close to the tent to make milking in the morning convenient.
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
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  • A woman performs a religious ritual outside a Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • The head nun of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery,  Tsul Tim Lhamu. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The head nun of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery,  Tsul Tim Lhamu. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Monks blow horns as they prepare for prayer outside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Monks walk towards a partially rebuilt monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Monks blow horns as they prepare for prayer on a mountain above a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Villagers tend to a flock of sheep near a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • A view of the mustard fields in bloom in the Dingha Valley on the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • A Tibetan nomad walks outside one of the handmade yak wool tents that serves as a home to nomads during spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish and solar panel were provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan nomads outside their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer on the Tibetan Plateau.  The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
    TIB_060624_177_xw.jpg
  • Karsal, a nomadic yak herder, with his typical day's worth of food inside the family's yak-wool tent in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 5,600 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 135 pounds. A pile of yak dung, used for fuel, looms in the background. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Buddhist nuns during a ceremony at the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Six-year-old Nyima Dun Drup takes a turn at the butter churn as Phurba puts a pot of milk on the fire and Karsal talks to a neighbor at the Tibetan nomadic family's home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
    TIB_060621_470_xxw.jpg
  • Nomadic herders Karsal and his wife Phurba pour butter tea onto their breakfast tsampa as their son watches at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, milks one of the family's dris in the early morning at their home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The male yaks remain free at night, grazing at higher elevations, and the dris and their calves are tethered close to the tent to make milking in the morning convenient, and to prevent the calves from suckling all the milk.
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  • Three monks chant and read holy Buddhist scripts outside their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sculpted figurines, called tormas, are offerings made of tsampa (barley flour) and butter.
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  • The head monk extends his tongue to greet visitors at the reconstructed monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.) An extended tongue is a common greeting that indicates respect. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tibetan nomads inside a handmade yak-wool tent, which serves as their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist monks recite from holy scripts and chant during devotional practice at their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomads at home in their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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