Thank you, these photos are just beautiful!
I'm fascinated by the fact that some of the largest, most intricately built statues and temples are in some of the poorest, most remote places of Tibet (or also in other countries like Thailand, Burma etc). I find, as a practitioner in the west, how much harder it is to raise funds for anything spiritual - I think people just don't want to put money into something that they don't get something material back for. And it is sad that it has come to that.
When you think about how little, materially, the Tibetans have (especially as so much of the country is still nomadic), it's really quite amazing how much can be built, just out of sheer faith, devotion and the wish to do it.
I saw this recently too, about a huge temple in the Chatreng region of Tibet (where Trijang Rinpoche comes from):
http://www.dorjeshugden.com/videos/monasteries-locations/chatring-samphel-ling-monastery-kham-tibet/ It's incredible how extensive the building works are there and how beautiful the monasteries are. This is considering the fact that the region's Lama, Trijang Rinpoche, isn't even there. The devotion across generations is really something to be admired. Something for many of us to think of - how much are we able to accomplish even when our Lamas are right here with us?
