Agra, N India 1

Buildings next to Taj Mahal

N India 2

train station in the Himalayan foothills

N India 3

Inside train carriage

N India, Rajasthan 4

N India, Rajasthan 3

S India 5

Pondicherry

N India 6

Pushkar, Rajasthan

S India 7

Bangalore market, when I lived in Bangalore this was where I did my shopping, but I was a vegetarian then.

S India 8

This is the part of the Bangalore market I shopped in.

N India 9

Train station in Himalayan foothills.

N India 10

S India, Bylakuppe 11

Bylakuppe, Karnataka State This is Kunsang Lama, a Tibetan Monk that I became friends with while I was living in Bangalore. Bylakuppe is a Tibetan Resettlement Camp 100 mi south of Bangalore, just south of Mysore.

S India, Bylakuppe 12

Inside theTemple with Lama's (Monks)

S India, Bylakuppe 13

Lama's inside Temple

S India, Bylakuppe 14

Lama inside Temple

S India, Bylakuppe 15

Tibetan outside his home.

S India, Bylakuppe 16

Young and old Lama's in Temple. In tradition from Tibet one boy from each family around the age of 10-12 joined the Monastery and usually remained a monk for life.

S India, Bylakuppe 17

Tibetan Nun (female) lights butter candles outside Temple. Nuns were the exception, I only met a few in all my time in India.

S India, Bylakuppe 18

Nun with butter candles/

S India, Bhylakuppe 19

Early morning with young monks waiting for breakfast.

S India, Bylakuppe 20

Breakfast was a mixture of barley flour and chai (tea) called Tsampa.

S India, Bylakuppe 21

S India, Bylakuppe 22

Young monks relaxing outside the Temple. Life for the Lama's was very disciplined and busy between schooling and religious life.