Rumtek Monastery

Sikkim: The Unpublished Photographs Part II

 This is an essay on the monastery dances of Sikkim from my collection of unpublished photographs.

Dancers practice at  Ralang  monastery before the masked dances

Black hat dancers, Rumtek

Pang Lhabsol Musicians, Tsulakhang, Gangtok

The photographer lama, Ralang Monastery

Dancer, Ralang Monastery

Pemayangtse monastery - prayers during Lhosar

The dancer representing Kangchendzonga - Pang Lhabsol, Tsulakhang, Gangtok 

Black Hat dancers, Phodang

Monastery door, Lachung

Sikkim: The Unpublished Photographs

I spent around twelve years photographing in Sikkim and during this time I built up a very large collection of transparencies. Here are some of the photographs which were not published in the Sikkim book. Thanks to latest scanning technology they can be reproduced on the web. I hope to add some more of this work in the next few months.

The monastery of Ralang in South Sikkim on Guru Padmasambhava's birthday

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Prayers outside the Tsulakhang chapel on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral - March 1987

Rumtek monastery

 

Women bathe at a hot spring near Legship in south Sikkim known as Tatopani

Lal Market, Gangtok