There is a fairly impressive level of detail now on Google Earth images for the Yading area. Here's an image I grabbed from the place that we called 'the shoulder' looking back towards Jambeyang (left) and Chanadorje (right). You can see the image from the real world below.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
The armchair kora: doing Yading by Google Earth
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Exhibition of Naxi art at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York
This exhibition unites approximately one hundred works of Naxi religious art primarily acquired by Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and botanist-explorer Joseph Rock in the early- to mid-twentieth century, for the first time.
Sounds amazing - some great talks too. Wish I could go!
For more details, see here:
http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/989
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The final trip ...
I have one more Joseph Rock journey to do to complete the whole jigsaw. I need to revisit his "Seeking the Mountain of Mystery" travels from Choni and Labrang (Xiahe) monasteries in Gansu to Ragya monastery in Qinghai. I'm planning to go later this year (although I still need to find the money and get three weeks off work - minor details). Then I can finish the final chapter of the "In the Footsteps" book, which I hope to get published when I can get around to approaching agents/publishers).
In the meantime, I am preparing the next chapter on my visit to the 'lost mountain' of Muti Konka near the Yalong river
[Ragya Monastery]
In the meantime, I am preparing the next chapter on my visit to the 'lost mountain' of Muti Konka near the Yalong river
[Ragya Monastery]
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Christian graves on the Salween, Yunnan
Scan of a colour negative, tweaked in Photoshop. From my visit to the Nujiang/Salween at Christmas 2009.
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