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Inside The Womb Of The Black Tents |
| The tent is the warm heart of nomad life – the place for eating, sleeping, making butter, cheese and curd, socialising, saying prayers, making and having babies, dying. |
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Daily Life In The Grasslands |
| In eastern Tibet nomads live in high altitude grassland unsuitable for settled farming but ideal for the grazing of their large herds of yak, sheep and goats. |
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Snow Leopard Grasslands - The Valley Of The Outlaws |
| The light dusting of snow on these uplands, on a bitterly cold September morning in Amdo, gave me the feeling of walking on the back of a giant snow leopard. |
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Ngawang Nga Pa |
| The monk is writing a funding application to a foreign charity, asking for money to create a school for the nomad children of the area - Ngawang nga pa in Derge shen, Kham. |
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Jouneying - The Life Of Freedom |
| There seem to be plenty of opportunities for travel and socialising in nomad life – pilgrimage to sacred places, trading in nearby towns and further afield, attending horse fairs, races & monastery rituals. |
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Mountain Song |
| Tibet is well known as “a land of snows”, having the youngest and therefore some of the highest mountains on earth. |
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Cowboys of The Tibetan Borderlands |
| I was fascinated by the wild earthiness of the drokpa men of Amdo and Kham, who reminded me of cowboys or native American Indians in their proud appearance and in their outdoor life of freedom, riding the open range. |
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Nature And The Spirit |
| A trully nomadic monk, we met this lama again and again in different places as we travelled in the Taerlung area in Kham. |
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