Images captions (from top to bottom):
1. Sera is a "university" monastery, famous for it's daily debate scene, which is opened to public. The brown colored metal barrels in the image are prayer wheels. Each turn of the wheel symbolize reciting the prayer, engraved on the wheel, once.
2. Lhasa is nicknamed "sunlit city" for the way-above-average sunlight it receives annually. The image shows just one of the ways the solar power is used in everyday life. I have seen such setup in both sedentary and nomadic households.
3. Colorful and "cute" beddings for monks
4. debating monk 1 (the handsome one)
5. debating monk 2
6. debating monk 3
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