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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Young monks search for the last  fruits in pear trees as winter sets in Bhumthang, Eastern Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • The Punakh Dzong is shown October 11, 2005 in Punakha Bhutan.
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  • A Buddhist monk enters the formidable doors of Trongsa Dzong, the Ancestral home of Bhutan's monarchy. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has sat in isolation for thousands of years and only recently has been thrust into the glare of modern times after centuries of solitude. Bhutan is a tiny, remote, and impoverished country wedged precariously between two powerful neighbors, India and China. Violent storms coming off the Himalaya gave the country its name, meaning "Land of the Thunder Dragon." This conservative Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalaya had no paved roads until the 1960s, was off-limits to foreigners until 1974, and launched television only in 1999 .
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Traditional doctor heats a gold needle to treat joint pains or headaches to a patient at the Trashi Yengtse hospital in Eastern  Bhutan October 15, 2005. (ami Vitale)
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  • BHUTAN:THE LAST SHANGRI LA 3: Buddhist Monks practice a dance in the eastern village of Trashi Yangtse. The small Himalayan kingdom has sat in isolation for thousands of years and only recently has been thrust into the glare of modern times after centuries of solitude. ÊBhutan challenges the conventional yardstick for measuring economic development and growth, the quantitative measure of gross national product (GNP) and is working with the holistic, multidimensional measure of gross national happiness (GNH). According to the Royal Government of Bhutan, "Gross national happiness comprises four pillars: economic self-reliance, environmental preservation, cultural promotion, and good governance. These four goals are mutually linked, complementary, and consistent. They embody national values, aesthetics, and spiritual traditions."
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  • LEH, LADAKH, AUGUST 19: Ladakhi Buddhist monks .construct a mandala with sand and the dust of precious stones inside the Thiksay monastery, 17 kilometers outside of Leh, the capital of Ladakh, India August 19, 2003. . After the festival the mandala will be destroyed, thus expressing the impermanence of visible forms.  Nestled high in the Himalayas , the isolated area of Ladakh first opened to tourists in 1974, and is the home to one of the last surviving authentic Tibetan Buddhist cultures.  Leh is situated at a height of 3505 meters and once was part of the silk route of central Asia. Traders from exotic and far-flung lands have long spoken of the beauties of these lands. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • LEH, LADAKH, AUGUST 19: Ladakhi Buddhist monks .construct a mandala with sand and the dust of precious stones inside the Thiksay monastery, 17 kilometers outside of Leh, the capital of Ladakh, India August 19, 2003. . After the festival the mandala will be destroyed, thus expressing the impermanence of visible forms.  Nestled high in the Himalayas , the isolated area of Ladakh first opened to tourists in 1974, and is the home to one of the last surviving authentic Tibetan Buddhist cultures.  Leh is situated at a height of 3505 meters and once was part of the silk route of central Asia. Traders from exotic and far-flung lands have long spoken of the beauties of these lands. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A young Ladakhi Buddhist who is studying to become a monk wears a mask during the annual festival celebrating the birth anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava, the founder of Lamaism (an off-shoot of Buddhism) in the eighth century. The two-day festival is marked by ritual dancing  in Hemis Gumpa, 28 miles southeast of Leh in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir June 28 and 29, 2004. The Hemis Gumpa is the oldest and largest monastery in Ladakh.
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