Keeping Faith: Tibet in Exile

A photo essay by Kitty Leaken

Part Two

Kitty is a Program Director and Board Member of FOTWA, and, with Sarah Lukas, co-founder of the Painting Club.
Her photographs appear in
The Art of Exile.

Palden Gyatso

 

The Jokhang, Tibet's most sacred temple. A pilgrimage here is considered an important lifetime experience.

 

A woman prostrates at a pile of mani stones on front of the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet. Mani stones are carved with a mantra and carried to this spot in prayer.

 

An enormous thangka is unfolded at the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet. Revealed to the sunlight for only a few hours in 1994 for the first time since 1959.

 

On the Barkhor, the market encircling the Jokhang temple a firetender burns juniper during a 'puja' or prayer ritual.

 

Lighting butter lamps inside the Jokhang in Lhasa.

 

Pilgrims to Lhasa pose in a studio for a portrait they will carry as a souvenir of their journey.

 

Crossing the Chang Tang, one of Tibet's highest mountain passes.

 

Chinese soldier.

 

During Shoton Festival in Lhasa, Tibetans find time to dress in their finest for picnics and revelry.

 

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Kitty Leaken  angkor@rt66.com

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