Xialadi Village

Making honey outside of Qiagai township


Nomads' pasturelands outside of Xialadi Village

Xialadi Village

Padmatso in front of her village


Padmatso's neighbor and her young niece


Padmatso's neighbor greets visitors outside of her yak-hair tent


Padmatso's sister milks a yak


Padmatso's grandmother


Xialadi villagers get ready to work the fields


Barley

A father and son take a break from working the fields

Water-powered barley mill

Grinding roasted barley flour inside the mill


Villagers


The site of the original Xialadi village temple, which is now covered over in barley fields


Villager


Drolmatso, a Buddhist practicioner


Lhamotso, a Buddhist practicioner


Lhamotso readies her prostration board, which is too large to fit inside of her prayer room


Sonamkyi, a 74-year-old female practitioner, chants mani



Drolmatso in her small prayer room


Drolmatso holding the only remnant of the original Xialadi temple


Gazang tsho, a 67-year-blind practitioner


Padmatso's mother


Padmatso

Padmatso and her mother

Padmatso's family (with Madeleine Graham-Blake and Michelle Kleisath)