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Afternoon in a Nomad Tent

Nomads lived in large yak hair tents moving camp 3 to 4 times in a grazing season, following their animals to new pastures. A generation or two...

Ritoma

Labrang Tashikhyil was founded in 1709 by the First Jamyang Shepa, Jamyang Shepei Dorje, under the sponsorship of a Qoshot Mongol prince. Many ...

Animals and Surroundings

Past Ritoma Monastery, hidden from view on a hill is a small temple devoted to the meditational deity Chanadorje. It was built in the late 18th...

Ritoma

2017 marked Norlha’s ten years. Though the celebration was kept deliberately small, it was a time for reflecting on the changes that had occurr...

Ritoma

An anniversary makes us look back and take measure of where we are now versus what we were then. Ten years ago this time, Norlha moved into its...

Ritoma

The third and last day is the wildest. Around 3:00 pm the tent dismantling process begins, and along with that, the water fights, pitting men a...

Ritoma

Norlha is a member of a closely knit community where relations between people and those with animals are closely synched in the rhythm of every...

Ritoma

On the second day, the games begin; traditional games like tug of war and races, party games like eating a dangling apple or feeding each other...

Ritoma

Tibetan picnics are a world unto themselves, a celebration of summer, of blue skies with billowing clouds, of green expanses; a time to enjoy n...

Clothing

In Tibet, men and women wear the same outer garment, the chuba, though they do it in different ways. The women wear their chubas ankle length, ...

Ritoma

Andrew Taylor is from Los Angeles, California and this is his second year at Norlha. Andrew is a tutor to two little girls during the day, and ...

Ritoma

Mud walls, often seen as the poorer relative to stone, have stood the test of time as well, if not better than their stone counterparts. Among ...