Labrang County

Picking flowers to burn for the mountain gods


villager with flower-offerings



Samtsogye Whitney


The two head nuns of Labrang's poorest nunnery

Nuns work together to make a prayer hall where they can practice. Currently, they have no place to practice

Treshing bush to use for insulation

The nuns of Labrang's poor nunnery

collecting yak dung in Labrang county

Samtsogye and some of her family (with Madeleine Graham Blake)

riding into the pastureland on a Tuk Tuk

nomadic pasturelands outside of Labrang

Samtsogye, her eldest brother, and her father

sheep come in for the night

Samtsogye's brother heads home