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The old section of town, around Jokhang Temple includes Barkhore Street, the business center of Lhasa. Popular items include Yak Butter, for making buttered Yak tea, thermoses, and now even blenders, which are replacing butter churners now that electricity is readily available. |
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There are always people praying in the street, and there are incense burners and prayer wheels they sometimes use. The picture above, on the right, is a good view of the mall/square in front of Jokhang Temple. There is a lot of packing and unpacking of items in the open-air markets. |
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The remaining pictures show artists working on "tanka" paintings, apartments in the older section of lhasa, and the more modern, more Han Chinese, section of Lhasa. The sculpture in the last picture is near Potala Palace and is on the cover of the book "Seven Years in Tibet" (that Brad Pitt is walking through). Lhasa streets are cleaned mostly by those ladies with "brush-brooms". |
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