EditorialTemple Administrator Topden Lepcha brings the purified sacred prayer books of the Singhik Buddhist temple in preparation for the Buddhist holiday of Saka Dawa., Singhik, Sikkim, india - 05 May 2015
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialSlender bonnet bellflower, Codonopsis gracilis. Sikkim. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1862-65.
EditorialNoble rhubarb or Sikkim rhubarb, Rheum nobile. Illustration copied from a sketch by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardin...
EditorialSikkim larch, Larix griffithii, tree and cones. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1857.