subject: ovoo, mountain worship
Dund-bulag, Handgate. Spring pasture, with some damage.
subject: pastoralism
A sacred plant of the Uriyanghai Mongols (the several bushy plants with red stalks in foreground).
subject: natural sacred sites
An Uriyanghai woman, centre of Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
Surgical operating room, Handgate Hospital
subject: medicine
The lama, and the trees he planted
subject: Buddhism
Dr. Marsel’s herbs and materia medica for making medicines
A Kazakh ‘knowledgeable old man’, Hsaing Centre, Handgate
Handgate Hsiang Centre
A stone house on the route between the winter camp and the spring camp, Handgate
Early Spring in Handgate
A visit to an Uriyanghai household
Lama’s grandchildren, praying or playing. Handgate temple
List of photographs taken and submitted by Tsui Yen Hu.
Dr. Dimulati Omar doing Tibetan yoga at Five-Finger Spring
A scene at the Handgate centre
Children at Handgate Centre
Dr. Marsel, an Uriyanghai traditional medical specialist, showing us some of the herbs and powders he uses
Handgate cinema
Three languages used in Handgate, Chinese, Mongolian and Kazakh
Lama Øbuden praying, Handgate Temple. The image on the left is said to be three hundred years old.
A reception given to Dr. Omar and Dr. Tsui by the leaders of the Handgate Hsing
Dr. Dimulati Omar interviewing Mr. Huojian, district leader of Handgate Hsiang, at the gate of the Hsiang government office, Altai.
A young herder sitting and meditating at Five-Finger Spring. He comes here once a week, and he said, “My soul is quiet here.” Dr. Tsui observed him meditating for over half an hour.