POV498024: Tibetan Buddhism (Tantric B., Vajrayana): Nezer chorten (stupa), prayer flags and piles of stones (cairns) in high altitude Himalayan 'sacred landscape' overlooking Indus valley and snowcapped Zanskar Range (Stok-Kangri Massif) Upper Leh Valley, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India / Bridgeman Images
POV498033: Array of photo-voltaic solar panels on school roof (advanced solar energy system making school energy self-sufficient), peaks of Zanskar Range in bckgnd. Druk White Lotus School (Padma/Pema Karpo Educational Institute, World architecture award: Best green building 2002), Shey, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himalayas, India / Bridgeman Images
POV498081: Tibetan Buddhism (Tantric B., Vajrayana): Remnants of fire ritual/ceremony/puja chinsek (here dedicated to Jigjed=Tara Chenmo) where offerings are passed into sacrifical fire to pacify the deities visualized in the fire, monk sweeping up in monastery courtyard Thiksey Gompa (Gelugpa order monastery), Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himalayas, India / Bridgeman Images