Xiahe

Xiahe is both one of the most interesting places I have ever been, and the location of growing Tibetan protests in China. It is a small town in southern Gansu province, in China proper, with a population of a few thousand - roughly evenly split between ethnic Tibetans and Han Chinese. The Labrang monastery, one of the six major monasteries of Yellow Hat sect Tibetan Buddhist (the Dalai Lama's sect), forms the vast majority of the western half of the town. I don't really have a point to make other than to bring attention to the tragedy of the fact that the Chinese military is probably going to fuck the place up. Here is my photo tribute: