back to overview
 


Daily Life


Work, Leisure, Clothing and Textiles, Politics and Portraits, Furniture, Houshold, Funerals, Death, Murder, Family.



7 subcategories
Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

Clothing and Textiles

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Furniture

FURNITURE

Illness and Diseases

ILLNESS AND DISEASES

Industry

INDUSTRY

Leisure

LEISURE

Work

WORK

8,731 photos
Actor in character costume. Terracotta figurine. Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 CE), Excavated 1963 at Chiao-Tso, Honan, China H: 37 cm
#05010260

Actor in character costume. Terracotta figurine....

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.
#05010314

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.
#05010315

Sixteen years after the Cultural Revolution and its destruction of religious...

Nagartse, a ruined fort between Shigatse and Gyantse, protected a 17th century Indian trade route from Kathmandu to Lhasa. Barley and rye grow on the fertile plain at an altitude of between 3.600 and 4.000 m.
#05010326

Nagartse, a ruined fort between Shigatse and Gyantse, protected a 17th century...

Nagartse, a ruined fort between Shigatse and Gyantse, protected a 17th century Indian trade route from Kathmandu to Lhasa. Barley and rye grow on the fertile plain at an altitude of between 3.600 and 4.000 m.
#05010327

Nagartse, a ruined fort between Shigatse and Gyantse, protected a 17th century...

Palkhorchoede Monastery in Gyantse, on the route from Kathmandu to Lhasa. The monastery and the "Stupa of the Thousand Buddhas" are surrounded by a fortress-like wall. The windowless tower on the hill- top is used to hang up tangkas (buddhist paintings).
#05010329

Palkhorchoede Monastery in Gyantse, on the route from Kathmandu to Lhasa....

Tashilhunpo Monastery, the funeral Temple of the Fifth Panchen Lama (center) and (right) the golden roofs of the Great Temple. See 05-01-03/41-55
#05010342

Tashilhunpo Monastery, the funeral Temple of the Fifth Panchen Lama (cent...

A Tibetan monk plays with a cat in the entrance to the Funeral Temple of the fifth Panchen Lama. Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse. See 05-01-03/41-55
#05010349

A Tibetan monk plays with a cat in the entrance to the Funeral Temple of...

A Tibetan monk walks through one of the many narrow alleyways which connect temples, living quarters and stupas at Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse. See 05-01-03/41-55
#05010350

A Tibetan monk walks through one of the many narrow alleyways which connect...

A Tibetan monk stands in one of the many narrow alleyways which connect temples, living quarters and stupas in Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse. See 05-01-03/41-55
#05010351

A Tibetan monk stands in one of the many narrow alleyways which connect...

Two stupas (a funeral monument or reliquary) in Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse. See 05-01-03/41-55
#05010354

Two stupas (a funeral monument or reliquary) in Tashilhunpo Monastery, S...

The fertile plain of Shigatse, at an altitude of 3.800 m. Tara Mountain and Shigatse fortress in center background.
#05010362

The fertile plain of Shigatse, at an altitude of 3.800 m. Tara Mountain a...