India Photographs

Monks wear funeral aprons for a procession of a deceased follwer in Leh, Laddahk. They...

In autumn, the monestary in Tikse towers over the small town in Ladakh, a Tibetian...

The women of Ladakh, a Tibetian culture province located in northern India, wear their wealth...

The prayer books of a Tibetian monestary are reverantly wrapped in silk and placed in...

In the dim light of a Tibetian monestary, a monk blows the reedy horn....

Each page of the Tibetian prayer book is printed by hand in the old fashion...

Just before lunch on a festival day, the monks in a monestary near Gangkok, Sikkim,...

Boys line up against the wall to recite their verses by rote. They rock as...

The ancient rituals of horn/drum/chant takes place as it has for centuries in this small...

Worn and weathered by sun and wind, curtains of prayer flags deposited by pilgrims drape...

The main temple outside of Gangtok is ablaze in the afternoon sun....

Outside of the monestary in Hemis, Monks rehearse their dances for a festival later in...

By the light of coconut oil, traditional dancers act out the relgious sagas of southern...

Fishing is a community business along the coast of Kerala. There are few harbors and...

These fellows squat in this small, but ornate stand, selling beetle nut and other chewables...

The tender, yellowish new leaves of the tea plant are plucked by hand and thrown...

This view of Varansi, once called Barnares, shows the accumulation of centuries of building and...

The cliches in this image are almost too much. The ceiling fan, the bamboo and...

This was a small temple complex in southern India. I forget the name now, but...

I'm not sure why these dyes were being sold. Anyone know?...

On my first day in India, they began throwing statues of gods into the Ganges...

Early one morning on the steps only the Ganges in Varansi, this monk was greeting...

The small statue is rowed out to the middle of the Ganges river and submerged....

Theses be-jewled women were standing in line for some kind of rations in a marketplace....

In the old trading town and oasis of Jaisalmer in the desert of Rajastan, the...

I loved the turbans that men wore. Unwound, these turbans could reach 20 feet in...

These images of doors I found primarily in India, although a few came from Iran,...

The nose-ring in the young women in the veil is made of gold and is...

Two men gossip at a bench in front of a shutterd store. One man is...

In this part of the world men shop for women's clothes more often that I...

Groom covered in flowers rides to his wedding....

The flat rooftops of the town of Udaipur in Rajastan. Rooftops are extra rooms. At...

Along one of the hallways in the Golden Temple in Amristar, a man is dispensing...

A flock of men rest at an inn on their way on a pilgrimage. I...

Near the Taj Mahal, tile cutters continue their craft of finely cutting tiles to ornate...

This peddler's somewhat portable sharpening machine (built around a bicycle wheel rim) is used to...

Hot coffee, mixed with milk and sugar, is cooled slightly by pouring from a grand...

A muslim melon vendor readies delicious watermelon slices during the peak of summer's heat....

In southern India, one of the morning chores for women is decorating their steps, porches,...

Children work in Asia. Sometimes it is to help out their family, like this fellow...

A camel pleads for food at his owner's home in Rajastan....

Entrance to the Golden Temple in Amristar....

Push cart food vendor attracts kids on a street corner in Rajastan....

The many arms of Shiva, carved in wood decorate a temple in southern India....

Outside a temple, folk art decorates a convenient perch to wait and read....

The Golden Temple, center of the Sikh religion, glitters at night in the city of...

Folk art painted over the entrance to a door....

A sadhu rests. Cloaked in sackcloth and ashes, this man has renounced the material possessions...

A gilded age of the Raj shines in the old palaces in Mysore (I think)....

The Golden Fort at Jaisalmer, at the end of the rail line in Rajastan, near...

Flower garlands everywhere. Hung in respect around the necks of sadhus, idols, and guests. This...

The ancient Jantar Mantar solar and astronomical observatory....

A view overlooking an island in the small lake in Udaipur, in Rajastan. In the...

A marble fountain in a palace in Rajastan. In Udaipur probably....

This building needs no introduction. This picture was taken at dawn, while the mist was...

No Hindu woman would go outside without the small red dot on her forehead, called...

Flute seller in Calcutta wooing customers....

The traditional dance of southern India, performed by the light of coconut oil lamps...

Nagas are naked sadhus, or holy hobos, or wandering, homeless monks. They rely on gifts...

To escape the fierce noon heat a man rests in the shade of an arcade...

I met this guy walking near a temple built around a sacred tree. He is...

South Indian temples are a riot of seething human shapes and multiple spirit beings. The...

These two girls were the center of a tableau depicting a Hindu religious tale. The...

Ox carts pass slowly by the Red Fort, a mogul masterpiece in old Delhi....

A sadhu sits in the crowds of the Kumbh Mela, the worlds' largest gathering. This...

Under a veil of jasmine flowers a groom rides to his wedding....

While waiting in a tea house I met this wandering minstral. He plays a guitar-like...

Contemplation along the bathing steps of the River Ganges. The brass pitcher is for a...

Street market. Many sellers like this women own only a scale and some baskets, and...

In southern India there is a cave complex, which I think this momument hides in....

The bathing ghats or steps along the river Ganges. For thousands of years, thousands of...

While others bathe in the Ganges River, a pilgrim raises his hands in prayer....

Drawn by 50 men, a wheeled chariot of a god is displayed in the streets...

Pilgrims by the hundreds of thousands come to wash themselves in the river Ganges. They...

On the outskirt of Simla, an hill-station in India, the march of the Himalayas can...

A procession for a local god prepares to leave the gates of the city with...

Every fall the Kulu valley holds the battle of the gods, or Dussehra Festival. Hundreds...

A pilgrim performs a cleansing ritual, or water puja, in the river Ganges. The water...

A hamlet of slate-roofed farm houses dot the hillsides of the Kulu Valley....

The women of Ladakh region of Tibet (and this culturally Tibetian part of India) wear...

The extreme aridity of Ladahk gives this temple complex the appearance of being built on...

Young boys are often sent to Tibetian monestaries so that they could be educated to...

Lamps for a Tibetian temple are filled with yak butter and lit by women in...

A hermit basks in the afternoon sun in front of his cave in the Himalaya...

Walking barefoot, Hindu pilgrims return from the glacier highlands of Gangotori, one of the sources...

Battle of the Gods in Kulu Valley. Local clans try to outdo each other in...

To tell you the truth, I've lost track of where this picture was taken. One...

With a flourish of trumpets local gods are marched into a competition of gods in...

Trumpets announce the arrival of an ark containing the image of a local god. Marching...

A religious procession begins at the city palace of the maharaja (magistrate) of Kulu....

This mill house is powered by a small but rapid stream. Local farmers bring their...

Two men, wearing the distinctive Kulu Valley caps, take a break to gossip on their...

Along a canal bringing water to fields of Srinagar valley a farmer walks home. The...

The sources of the Ganges river are popular pilgrmage destinations. This lowland pilgrim is on...

In the far north of Kashmir lies the culturally Tibetian area of Ladakh. Claimed by...

Rajastanis inspect ceremonial swords. India's desert warriors, much influenced by -- but never conquered by...

Wherever this is abundant wood, craftsman will carve it. In the Kulu Valley of India,...