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A single young monk in maroon robes standing in a doorway of warm interior light.

Boy from Kham

Drepung Monastery · Lhasa Prefecture , Tibet

འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན་པ་   ·   'bras spungs dgon pa

1995 · Kodachrome 35mm slide

From the collection Tibet, 1990s

He had come from Kham a few months earlier, he told me — a village two weeks’ walk from the nearest road. He could not yet read the texts. He stood in the doorway because the main hall was being cleaned. I have never learned his name.

From the collection · Tibet, 1990s

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