Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Lu Zo, Living Buddha of Yongning Monastery, 1996
This is Lu Zuo,or Lobsang Yeshe as he is known in Tibetan, in 1997. At that time he was 67 years old, and still overseeing the Buddhist practices at Yongning monastery.
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail
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