Pemakod Project:
View of Deden Tashi Choeling Temple from Lower Retreat Land -- January 2011
Pemakod Project:
Temple Side View -- January 2011
Pemakod Project:
Front of Temple, Close Up -- January 2011
Pemakod Project:
Temple interior
Pemakod Project:
Temple exterior, front view -- January 2011
Pemakod Project:
View of Deden Tashi Choeling from upper retreat land, January 2011
Pemakod Project:
Concrete awaiting mixing and pouring for Temple walls and floors
Pemakod Project:
Gravel and stones from the river
Pemakod Project:
Gravel and stone carried up from the river, to be crushed and mixed with concrete for Temple construction
Pemakod Project:
Lumber adjacent to Temple, tsa tsa house in the distance
Pemakod Project:
Lumber awaiting carving, adjacent to Temple and tsa tsa house
Pemakod Project:
Temple, view from entering the retreat land
Pemakod Project:
Rainbow over the Temple
Pemakod Project:
Tea break!
Pemakod Project:
Bhutanese artisan working
Pemakod Project:
Lhakpa carving
Pemakod Project:
Tools for meticulous hand-carving wood-work
Pemakod Project:
Bhutanese artisan carving wood for temple interior
Pemakod Project:
Bhutanese artisan Lhakpa planing wood for temple windows and doors
Pemakod Project:
Bhutanese artisans carving and tsa tsa molds being heated on the fire
Pemakod Project:
Adding cotton to soil to make clay for tsa tsas
Pemakod Project:
Chyapi Pounding soil and cotton to make clay for tsa tsas
Pemakod Project:
Balls of clay awaiting pounding into tsa tsa molds
Pemakod Project:
Tulku, Tulku's Ama, and Maonkota Villager making tsa tsas at retreat land
Pemakod Project:
Tulku smoothing and doing finishing work on Dorje Drolod Tsa Tsa made from Pemakod clay
Pemakod Project:
Sonam Wangchen, Tulku, and Tulku's Ama making tsa tsas at the retreat land
Pemakod Project:
Dorje Drolod tsa tsas -- Dry (top) and wet (bottom)
Pemakod Project:
Dorje Drolod and Dorje Sempa (Vajrasattva) tsa tsas drying in the sun
Pemakod Project:
Tsa tsas drying in the sun
Pemakod Project:
Tsa tsa house behind Temple, housing all the tsa tsas made by Pemakod residents and retreatants for the stupa