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The Songzhanling Monastery - in Zhongdian in Chinese Yunna, just south of Tibet - is the largest in Yunnan. It was originlly built in the 17th century by the Fifth Great Lama, and became a theocratic centre of power. It was destroyed in 1949 and rebuilt by the locals. It remains a religious college and home to many tibetan and indian monks.
Tibetan / Indian monks go about their business at a buddist monastery in China.
The 2016 Festival of Faiths 'Sacred Wisdom, Pathways to Nonviolence" closed with a Compassion walk from Actors Theatre of Louisville to the Louisville Waterfront.
The dado of the late medieval rood screen is painted with naive figures of prophets, seven still survive.
DSC06382 each morning at sunrise for about 30 min, bright saffron orange robed buddhist monks (from three different temples?) walk in a single procession through the streets of luang prabang (laos) accepting alms (the respect given by a lay Buddhist to a Buddhist and in this case food - mainly sticky rice) offered by local residents (and tourists)
Ok, it's subtle, but there's a monk with a strong jaw under a tall hood.
Or me under a dunce's hat
coats hanging in the hallway
Monks from Bhutan's Trongsa Monastery conclude their 8-day visit to New York with a performance of the Cham dance of liberation at the Statue of Liberty, Sun. Sept. 21, 2008, in New York. The monks were in New York to celebrate the exhibition 'The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan' at Rubin Museum of Art through Jan. 5, 2009.
This donkey had taken refuge at the local carparking in Manali (India) and just when I wanted to take a picture the monk arrived and started feeding it
Sometimes you don't have time to get your act together. As I rounded a corner, this young monk saw me and, in the middle of this medieval setting, flashed me a very 21st Century gesture.
The composition was wonderful, so I shot it. The trouble was, I'd just been inside and my ISO was set quite high.
So here's a tip for sharpening up images without boosting the grainyness as well.
In Photoshop/GIMP/whatever editor you use, copy your image onto new layer, so you have two layers, each with your image on it.
Apply the 'find edges' filter to your top layer. It goes kind of funky, usually white with outlines of the picture on it.
Any areas you don't want sharpening, like empty sky or smooth skin, just paint white.
Now comes the cool part. On you layer's menu, you'll see an option for 'Blend mode' or something similar. Set it to 'multiply' and it will mix in such a way that the white background in your funky image basically disappears and you're left with the original image, but with super-strong fat outlines where the lines are on your top layer.
Turn down the opacity of your top layer and the effect will decrease. Don't overdo this effect, make your opacity just enough to sharpen up the edges you want.
Once you've got this, try using a high pass filter, or adjusting the brightness/contrast of your top layer to fine-tune.