The faces of Tibet are diverse in appearance and in lifestyle. From hip city teens to rugged farmers to aged monks and wandering tourists, the variety is panoramic. There is wonder, humor, puzzlement and more than a little hidden resentment at living under an occupying and repressive communist system over which they have no control. But there is an iron determination not to surrender their souls.

Tibet: outdoor pool game
Tibet: Michael and our guide Tensin
Tibet: entrance to temple
Tibet: pilgrims praying
Tibet: road repair crew
Tibet: young monk
Tibet: hay harvest
Tibet: family on the move by Namtso Lake
Tibet: tourist car drivers at a pit stop
Tibet: shepherd with flock
Tibet: overlooking lake with mastiff dog
Tibet: Lhasa - monks chanting after debate session
Tibet: Lhasa - young monks during learning debate
Tibet: Lhasa - young monks during learning debate
Tibet: Lhasa - young man observing debate
Tibet: Lhasa - young monks during learning debate
Tibet: Lhasa - senior monk
Tibet: Lhasa - Buddha statue
Tibet: rural women walking home with supplies.
China: communal lunch at Great Wall restaurant
China: groups at Beijing train station
China: main Beijing train station.
Tibet: Michael and Tenzin and prayer flags at Namtso Lake (Sky
Tibet: native farmers
Tibet: Michael and Richard at a mountain road pass at
Tibet: our Tibetan tour guide Tenzin Yangchen from Lhasa, seen here
Tibet: local Tibetan guy
Tibet: Lhasa - Buddhist temple monks chanting
Tibet: child hiding behind stone wall of his house.
Tibet: local Tibetan young man
Tibet: Michael and Richard at Mount Everest Base Camp
Tibet: first view of Mount Everest, about 50 miles away.
Tibet: child in his tent home at Everest Base Camp.
Tibet: Man with motorbike
Tibet: worker installing new power lines (about 75 feet above
Tibet: young monk with his father
Tibet, Lhasa: view of Barkhor Square, the central square of
Tibet: Lhasa - street sweeper tending incense ashes
Tibet: Lhasa - artist painting a tanka
Tibet: Lhasa - potato vendor
Tibet, Lhasa: Potala Palace - elderly Tibetan women and prayer
Tibet, Lhasa: Potala Palace - likely gay visitors taking each
Tibet, Lhasa: Potala Palace - monks on the walkway
Tibet, Lhasa: handsome visitor waiting in line for Potala Palace
Tibet, Lhasa: a shepherd with his ram near the Potala
Tibet: Lhasa - pilgrims circumambulating the Jarkang Temple
Tibet, Lhasa: Pazu Kong manager of Spinn Cafe Tours with whom
Tibet, Lhasa: Michael and Richard at the summer palace of
Tibet, Lhasa: a cheerful bicycle rickshaw driver
Tibet, Lhasa: women dressed in different attire shopping at a
Tibet, Lhasa: buyers gather around a fungi seller
Tibet, Lhasa: three monks walk across Barkhor Square. Monks' salaries are
Tibet, Lhasa: good friends and workers at a restaurant in Barkhor
Tibet, Lhasa: a local woman pauses in Barkhor Square with
Tibet: Lhasa - local guys hanging out
Tibet: Lhasa - metalworkers applying paint to a decorative awning
Tibet: Lhasa - young girl with her baby sister; spots
Tibet: Lhasa - young man in the market
Tibet: Lhasa - little boy watching
Tibet: Lhasa - adding milk to white paint to color
Tibet: Lhasa - young boys visiting a temple
Tibet: Lhasa - youth with cell phone; most young people
Tibet: Lhasa - vendor selling butter squares
Tibet, Lhasa: a novice monk at Sera Monastery ponders the
Tibet: Lhasa - woman at communal well
Tibet: Lhasa - women winding fabric strands
Tibet: Lhasa - elderly man in Barkhor Square
Tibet: Lhasa - Michael atop the Jarkang Temple with Potala Palace
Tibet: Lhasa - Jarkang Temple monk
Tibet: Lhasa - young men at the Jarkang Temple
Tibet: Lhasa - young woman consulting a monk

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