Tibet-Yogi.Chodpa. Derge

Yogi.Chodpa. Derge Vajrayana is the tantric mahasiddha, who lives fearlessly in terrifying places like remote jungles and charnel grounds. Perched on a cliff, a Yogi chodpa practitioner, blows a thigh-bone trumpet scavenged from the funeral grounds, invoking spirits to dismember her body and sever all notions of self-cherishing. Performed in wild and haunted places, the practice of Chod liberates the yogin from cyclic existence by vanquishing the fear that stems from identification with the ego and the physical body. By summoning what is most dreaded and openly offering that to which we are most attached, new levels of awareness open within ourselves and others. As Lama Nima says: “ Chod reveals the intrinsic purity of all phenomena and emptiness. Just as fear magnifies its objects, so too does fearlessness bring confidence and joy… In Tantra there is nothing to renounce, rather we must relate to all things openly and directly…Striving for enlightenment, we should be like an eagle soaring off a high cliff attached to nothing, leaving nothing behind.”

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Nepal-Humli Bride

Brides friend oiling her hair with straw. Nyinbas in Humla practice unique marriage, Polyandry, where one girl is married to all the brothers of a family Humla, North-West Nepal

Tibetan Tea

Dolma blows on dried yak manure cakes to heat up Tibetan salt-butter tea. Chang Tang Plateau, Central Tibet Museo Silver Rag (B & W Digital Print) Dimesion 13” x 20” US$600 Edition 1/25

Tibetan Greeting

Tibetan greeting and farewell: exchanging energies with the touch of the head, master, with open hands, receives his disciple, who holds his hands in a gesture of offering. Humla. Nepal Museo Silver Rag (B & W Digital Print) Dimesion: 12.887” x 20” US$600 Edition 1/25

Springtime

Bhotia children delight in spring’s gift, fragrant peach blossoms. Bargaau, Humla, Nepal Museo Silver Rag (B & W Digital Print) Dimesion: 13.507” x 20” US$600 Edition 1/25

Winter Morning Prostrations

Despite the chilly winter morning Buddhist pilgrims prostrate themselves before stone Buddha statues at the base of Swayambhunath hill.

Museo Fine Art Paper (B/W Digital Print) Dimension: 13.169” x 20” US$600 Edition 1/ 25

Jyapu Bathers

On Magh Sakranti (during January-February) the sun changes its course and begins to “move” towards the northern hemisphere. Despite the penetrating cold, this day is deemed most beneficial for ritual bathing. Many men and women gather along the banks of the sacred Bagmati River, notably in Patan’s Sankhamole area, to bathe and launch leaf-plate offerings of burning butter wicks praising their gods and petitioning blessings. Patan, Nepal Museo Fine Art Paper (B & W Digital Print) Dimension: 12.831” X 20” US$600 Edition: 1/25

Tamang Women

Women of the Tamang ethnic group carry loads of stones in Nagarkot, central Nepal. Across the Himalayas, women perform much of the field work and manual labor with a quiet, even cheerful grace. Lack of infrastructure and education means that hill villagers have few other ways to earn a living. Unfortunately, many of the young Tamang girls are sold by their families into prostitution to supplement their meager income and sadly for these girls, the road is a dead end ally. Nagarkot, Nepal Museo Fine Art Paper (B & W Digital Print) Dimension: 13.05” x 20” US$600 Edition1/ 25

Death Fresco, Drigung, Tibet

Drigung Monastery. Tibet.

Cham Dance at Drigung Monastery. Drigung Monastery is a notable monastery in Tibet, known for performing sky burials. Drigung district, Tibet.

Drigung Monastery. Tibet.

Cham Dance at Drigung Monastery. Drigung Monastery is a notable monastery in Tibet, known for performing sky burials. Drigung district, Tibet.

Himalayan Style

traditional living...half log and half mud buildings in...., Eastern Tibet