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Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious sites and works of art, rebuilding has begun in many monasteries and in Potala Palace. Here, singing workers pound the gravel floor of a hall.
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Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religiou...

Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious sites and works of art, rebuilding has begun in many Tibetan monasteries and in Potala Palace. Workers sift gravel, women carry heavy loads of building materials on their backs.
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Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious...

View from the terrace of the Great Temple in Lhasa. A gilded pillar with bells. In the background left, Potala Palace. See 05-01-03/16-23
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View from the terrace of the Great Temple in Lhasa. A gilded pillar with bel...

Terrace and roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Gilded columns and Tantric wheel with two does. See 05-01-03/6-13
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Terrace and roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Gilded columns and Tantr...

Gilded columns on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Gilded columns on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet....

Tantric wheel flanked by two does, on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Tantric wheel flanked by two does, on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, T...

Main Hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a skylight on the Buddha of the Future, Matreya. In his lap, a photograph of the Panchen Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Main Hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a...

Main hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a skylight on the Buddha of the Future, Matreya. In his lap a photograph of the Panchen Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Main hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a...

Wicks burn in copper basins filled with yak butter; many-faced, fierce Guardians in background. Great Temple in Lhasa. See 05-91-93/16-23
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Wicks burn in copper basins filled with yak butter; many-faced, fierce Guard...

Statue of Buddha Matreya, the Buddha of the Future, in the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Statue of Buddha Matreya, the Buddha of the Future, in the Great Temple in L...

View of Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa, seen through a window in the summer palace of the present Dalai Lama. The palace was finished in 1956, three years before the 14th Lama went into exile in Ladakh, India.
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View of Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa, seen through a window in the...

A narrow bridge, festooned with prayer flags, leads across the Lhasa-River to Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa.
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A narrow bridge, festooned with prayer flags, leads across the Lhasa-River t...