The director of this Tibetan dance group was working to document the ethnic dances before the Chinese culture imposed on Tibet eliminated them from memory.
April 17, 1984 at 5:13 pm | Asia, Tibet | 1 comment
The kitchen was off limits. but I stood in the doorway as they turned their backs to me. The arrangement of everything was completely unknown to me from any kitchen I had seen before. I was mesmerized. It seemed that there were lots of steaming pots with porous pots on top. Fabric was laid on top to hold in the steam. Steam everywhere.
April 17, 1984 at 5:01 pm | Asia, Tibet | 2 comments
Privileged to go through the Potala Palace room by room, climbing ladders with years of yak butter on them. The smell was heavy and warm, for some it was overwhelming.
March 17, 1984 at 4:52 pm | Asia, Tibet | No comment
Leaving from Lhasa we traveled by bus over mountains at 19,000ft passing a bag of oxygen back and forth between the passengers to breathe intermittently. In this remote region we found a Buddhist religious order, the intellectuals.
