PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXTS BY ALESSANDRA PIGNI
Travelling through “the other Tibet”, the regions of Kham and Amdo claimed by the Tibetan government in exile and called “Tibet” by the Tibetans yet politically simply China, the author discovered an unexpected world.
The “other Tibet” does not match the idealised picture that Westerners have of the Land of Snow. It is a conservative, traditional and deeply religious place where monks still hold a lot of power, nuns clean, cook and have little access to education, where spirituality is also business, and loving-kindness often an ideal and a Western projection.
The book can be purchased online at www.blurb.com
