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Tibetan Rescue

THE PHOTOGRAPHS

by Pamela Logan

IMAGES AND CAPTIONS COPYRIGHT 1991-2000 BY PAMELA LOGAN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION

PHOTOS FROM THE MAIN TEXT

1633-05 Monks distributing sanctified yarn and stalks
2289-01 Pewar Rinpoche.
2291-01 Shongshong
1968-06 Palpung Monastery and surroundings.
1276-03 Wong How Man, on the Golmud-Lhasa highway.
1586-01 Urgyen Rinpoche gazing from the window of his quarters.
1017-02 Renovation at the Derge Printing House in 1991.
2288-01 Harry Wong spins a prayer wheel.
2300-01 Razat, the author, John Sanday, and Harry Wong
1614-01 Meeting of 1994 team.
1625-01 Caravan is assembled for the trip to Pewar.
2301-01 Villagers who provided transportation for the team.
1695-01 Pewar Monastery and its mountain setting.
2004-01 Craftsmen carving blocks for the Dege Printing House.
1051-01 Dilapidated condition of Palpung in 1991. 
1588-01 John Sanday inspecting a crack in Palpung exterior wall.
1655-01 One of six paintings in a corridor of Palpung. 
1596-01 Palpng's woodwork shows movement of the building.
1802-11 Shongshong riding across snowy highlands.
1983-01 Nyima Tsering with painting.
1830-01 Carlo Giantomassi demonstrates cleaning technique.
2298-01 Aga performs pulse diagnosis on a patient.
1669-01 Conservators clean Pewar's Guardian King murals.
1727-01 Workers constructing new living quarters at Pewar.
1651-01 Team traveling by horse caravan.
2211-01 Khepa Tsering.
2011-02 The descent from Two Wolf Pass.
2287-01 Guido Botticelli
1683-01 Site of a failed detachment test. 
1666-02 Pounding a mural to loosen it from the clay wall.
1702-05 Removing gauze from the front of a mural.
1728-11 Cleaning Pewar's murals in preparation for detachment.
1053-06 Palpung window frame.
1662-01 Fresh timbers on the wall of Palpung's courtyard.
1650-09 Workers stamp on clay to make a rammed earth wall 
2270-02 Dzongsar Monastery.
2009-01 Peng Jing and the expedition bus.
2009-02 Expedition bus interior, on the road.
1965-03 1998 conservation team, on the roof of Pewar. 
1999-01 Giving rehydration solution to a baby girl.
1967-01 A team of Chinese and Tibetan loggers.
1957-01 Socializing after dinner.
1956-01 Cleaning glue from a de-gauzed mural. 
1589-01 20-meter high statue of Maitreya at Palpung. 
1974-05 Urgyen Rinpoche, dressed for a formal portrait.
1976-01 Parts of Palpung still falling down in 1998. 
1964-01 Students scrape clay from a mural.
2008-01 Members of the Palpung team 
1970-01 Students Shiro Jatsen, Tseren Penlo, and Trajia .
2280-03 Pewar Monastery—finished!
2001-01 Pewar Rinpoche presiding over a ritual.
2286-01 Pamela Logan on the roof of Dzongsar Monastery.
1984-01
Paola Azzaretti spot-cleans a mural .
1997-01
Student Shiro Jatsen brushing a fallen fragment.
1728-01
Cleaning murals prior to detachment, 1996. 

 MURAL PHOTOGRAPHS and STORIES

Chapter 1 Vajradhara
Chapter 2 Sakya Pandita
Chapter 3 The cow, the deer, and the lion
Chapter 4 Vajra-rock
Chapter 5 The Life of Gautama Buddha
Chapter 6 Nalagiri the Elephant
Chapter 7 Offering scene, with Wheel of Law
Chapter 8 Lotus throne
Chapter 9 The Hungry Tigress
Chapter 10 Guardian of the East
Chapter 11 Dorje
Chapter 12 Fire
Chapter 13 Gurgyi Gonpo
Chapter 14 Sarasvati
Chapter 15 Denba Tsering
Chapter 16 Amitayus
Chapter 17 Sumedha

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