Walking along the outer kora "circumambulation" of Sershul monastery, strolling on this kora taking shots with my camera here and there, I came across this beautiful Tibetan family.
While one family member was trying to shoot a family photo on his iphone, but did not get it right the first time and second time.
Meanwhile still fiddling with his iPhone.
This gave me the opportunity to steal his family snapshot, with my camera.
I took two shots, the first one is this picture.
This family was sitting on a steep slope with high grasses and wildflowers.
They had arranged themselves in a beautiful triangular or diamond like shape.
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Jyekundo , meaning "confluence of all attributes or growth", is named after the town`s illustrious hill top monastery, Jyekundo Dondrobling.
The town alone currently has a population of 37.000, and the street names are once again in Chinese.
Jyekundo is the modern town which developed from the old Tibetan trade mart called Jyekundo (skye dgu mdo, skye rgu mdo) in Tibetan and most Western sources.
The Tibetan designation skye dgu mdo indicates that it is a place where one valley opens into another one (mdo), here formed by two tributaries of the Jyegu river, Dza Chu (rdza chu) and Pel Chu (dpal chu). Since skye dgu also means men, mankind or all beings, the name could be interpreted as the ‘dwelling place of men at a valley junction’.
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The Flat Hat worn by woman, made of wool felt, brocade & lambskin, called in Tibetan “ཚ་ཞྭ། tsar sha”
Lambskin hat is popular in grassland areas of the Tibetan plateau. It is made of high quality lambskin in solid color. The large brimmed lambskin hat is cheap and in varied shapes. All of them are featuring small and short hat-body.
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The physiological challenges of living so far above sea level are not trivial, and yet people with roots in these areas are largely able to avoid these problems. Biologists aren't sure how they do it. When lowlanders travel to high altitudes, their bodies produce more red blood cells, which house the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin. However, Tibetans living at high altitudes have red blood cell levels and hemoglobin levels similar to those of lowlanders at sea level — and as a consequence of the low oxygen levels at those altitudes, Tibetans live with 10% less oxygen in their blood than most other people. Lower oxygen levels might seem like a disadvantage, yet highland women have fewer fertility problems than lowlanders living at high altitudes, have better blood flow to the uterus during pregnancy, and deliver heavier, healthier babies. For these reasons, biologists are convinced that there is an evolutionary explanation for Tibetans' success — that over generations of living at high altitudes, natural selection has favored traits that allow Tibetans to survive and reproduce in this extreme environment. But which traits?
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