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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibeta...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibeta…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibetan Buddhist Temple, in Shangri La (originally Gyaltangteng in Tibetan and called Zhongdian in China) was built in 1679 under the direction of the 5th Dalai Lama. The temple has been completely restored probably beyond its original glory with funding from from the central government. Most of the buildings…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibeta...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibeta…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Ganden Sumtseling, Tibetan Buddhist Temple, in Gyaltangteng (in Tibetan) in 1997 but known to the outside world as Zhongdian (in Chinese) then because the central government had not yet named the region “Shangri La” in an attempt to attract tourism based on the 1933 novel “Lost Horizon”, written by James Hilton. The ploy worked and the…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine The entrance to the Tiger...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine The entrance to the Tiger…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine The entrance to the Tiger Leaping Gorge in 1997. On the face of it, it should not be surprising that one of the deepest gorges in the world, with a maximum depth from the surface of the Yangtze River (called Jinsha Jiang here or “Golden Sand” River) to mountaintop is 3790 meters (12,434 ft), has not changed much in appearance in the…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Paddy rice fields used by...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Paddy rice fields used by…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Paddy rice fields used by Bai farmers to cultivate garlic in the sunny winter months and the Cangshan (Cang Mountain) that provides irrigation water year round. Xiahou, near Dali, Yunnan, China. 2014. The Linden Centre, cultural center & boutique hotel, run by Brian & Jeanee Linden (see story in Smithsonian Magazine), overlooks these…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Buildings don't make a co...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Buildings don’t make a co…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Buildings don’t make a community, people do. A typical afternoon in the Naxi capital of Lijiang before the massive tourist boom and vendors from the east of the country pushed the Naxi community out of the old city that they built. Most of the street level where these people are conducting their lives have now been converted to souvenir…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Tourism pandemonium in fr...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Tourism pandemonium in fr…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Tourism pandemonium in front of Dali’s South Gate. Yunnan, China. 2014. Although the Bai community of Dali has not been as affected by mass tourism to the degree that Lijiang has, the old city is largely vacated of its original Bai residents and given over to tourism commerce. #yunnan #dali #masstourism #southgate #heritage #change…

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For my last day posting China work on the @smithsonianmagazine Instagram feed, I...

For my last day posting China work on the @smithsonianmagazine Instagram feed, I…

[ad_1] For my last day posting China work on the @smithsonianmagazine Instagram feed, I want to share work done over time in China: Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Veiled Infant 1994 from my monograph photo book, “Empire: Impressions from China” (Five Continents Editions). This photo, more than any other defined how the hook was planted in me to document this vast, & diverse…

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Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Gelukpa (Yellow Hat) monk...

Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Gelukpa (Yellow Hat) monk…

[ad_1] Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @smithsonianmagazine Gelukpa (Yellow Hat) monks atop steps observing the Monlam Prayer Festival at Labrang Monastery, Labrang, Amdo, Tibet (Xiahe, Gansu, China) Labrang #festivals #tibet #buddhistmonks #amdo #PRC #smithsonian #jameswhitlowdelano [ad_2] Source by Smithsonian Magazine

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