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In line, a Tibetan woman holds a katag in front and a baby in back, Amitayus - Hayagriva Long Life blessing, Tibetan Buddhists, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Nepalese groundskeeper in his bright yellow and red sports suit, and Nepalese hat, putting up the Buddhist flags, green lawn, main driveway, 8 auspicious symbols, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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The beauty of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, a monk in robes, offering incense and flower pod, mala, Dharma bag, Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan nuns and monks, leity, standing in line for long life blessing, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Many faces of monks, meditators, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Censor swings incense dragon handles, silver and gold, leading the procession behind the horns, dragon in silk, Lamdre procession, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Tibetan Buddhism, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan man, wearing his formal chuba & mala, An old friend, Tibetan people, monks, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Kathmandu, Nepal
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In the sunset, a young monk walking through Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, prayer flags, tent, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Students, monks, lay people with cameras and offerings, White Umbrella, marigolds, Sakya Lama procession, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal, photo by Steve D.
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Himalayan rains weight down the Buddhist flags, houses with prayer flags in the distance, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Rhythm of the Saints; Manager speaks to people breaking down the temporary kitchen, cleaning the embers with soapy water, and lime desolving any grease, Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Wearing a yellow Thrangu Tashi Choling t-shirt two cooks carry a large pot of chopped tomatos, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Joy! -Tashi, wearing his adi, spinning a little Tibetan girl in the air, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan waist support or waist band, Tibetan woman, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Expecting sun and rain, Red umbrella, monks and lay people constructing the courtyard tent, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Bodha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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After the initiation the crowd disperses to chat, a Tibetan woman with a red umbrella, Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Wearing an adi (ritual robe) and sunglasses, a member of the Boudha Sangha with fruit basket offering and katag, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Cutting vegetables, dinner for hundreds, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Tibetan Buddhism, plates stacked, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Young monk's successful bread toss, gallery of initiates, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Young Tibetan Buddhist monk posing in front of a lama's desk, red white blue tent set up in background, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan woman from Kham, waiting for long life blessing, praying, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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In advance of the lama's white umbrella, surrounded with incense smoke, two monks carry colorful banners of victory, while one eases the way, Tibetan Buddhist celebration, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Lowering and raising prayer flag poles in the mountain rain, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Sakya Lamdre, Tibetan Buddhism, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Monks play horns as the Sakya lamas prepare to leave after blessing the prayer flag, His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, grandsons, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan monks offers white khatas by throwing them forward, Buddhist community, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Wearing red Buddhist robes - band members, lamas, monks, nuns, and lay people get situated for the group photographs, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Nuns waiting for the Amitayus - Hayagriva Long Life Blessing and Initiation, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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The Monk's blessing, HE Avikritar Rinpoche bestows vase blessing Amitayus - Hayagriva Long Life Initiation, His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya on throne, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Looking at the ground, Buddhist practice bag, pillows and ground cover with offering rice, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan Buddhist practitioners perform prostrations prior to the beginning of an instruction session, under the tent, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Weating adis, Nepalese Buddhist sangha ladies prepare offerings of marigold flowers and incense, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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"Hand that to me" said the cook, making tea in an outdoor kitchen, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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The morning crowd, mother with child, long shadows, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Tibetan Buddhist empowerment, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Activities - Discussings and explanations among Buddhists attending Lamdre, the chopon making arrangments for the blessing of the new prayer flag, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, from above, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Faces in line, the spirit of mankind, Amitayus - Hayagriva Long Life blessing, Tibetan Buddhists, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Rolling out the Tibetan carpets and silk chair covers for the Sakya Lamas, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Tibetan Buddhism, many monks and nuns, some lay people, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Two Tibetan children meet and greet, Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Like a painting: black Tibetan Mastif laying in the kitchen coal dust, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Orange-yellow aspicious banner bearer, Tibetan Buddhist monk in maroon robes, lama procession, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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After the initiation, a Tibetan woman in the crowd with a red umbrella, Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan children playing, a boy wearing a traditional chuba in orange silk, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan people, monkes and nuns waiting in the shade for HH Dagchen Sakya, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Monks stand at attention for the lama's arrival, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Band of one, Tibetan Buddhist adi, mat, sandals, grass, from above, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Crowd of Tibetan Buddhists gather with the Senior Sakya family lamas to make peaceful and wrathful offerings to the protector deities under a fresh prayer flag, Buddhist flags, tents, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Photographer holding camera, Tibetan Buddhist Lama in robes, Chinese contingent, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tharlam Monastery Courtyard with tents covering the overflow of 800 people or more, during Sakya Lamdre, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Praying under the tent with umbrellas, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Happy Tibetan monk with Buddhists crowding to see the long life and prayer flag pole blessing, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Anticipation of the procession, young monks, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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HH Dagchen Sakya under the white umbrella, lead by the Tibetan band, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu
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A monk tends the burning offerings of incense to make sure they smoke correctly, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Making lunch for hundreds, 2 cooks in the temporary kitchen, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Joyful Nepalese Tibetan Buddhist practitioner offers 2 sticks from a bundle of fine Kathmandu incense, and a broad smile, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Tibetan lady, a Tibetan Buddhist lay practitioner, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Two Tibetan women, wearing chubas, striped aprons,detail, carrying dharma bag, double jumping fish auspicious symbols in chalk, Buddhist flag, walkway, Sakya Lamdre, Tharlam Monastery courtyard, Tibetan Buddhism, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Children play after the initation, walkway from above, Auspicious symbols drawn in chalk, a row of ornamental trees, lawn, Tibetan people, motorcycle, shoes, Buddhist flags, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Unified monks and lay people under the tent while Steve holds the Sakya style painted katag, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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2 House crows, A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery from the Tharlam Monastery courtyard, near Dezhung Rinpoche's house, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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The Nepalese sangha bring a portrait of Hevajra wrapped in a katag to give to the Lamdre lama, HH Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, Tharlam Monastery Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
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