This is a very urgent question for many, many people on this Earth.

Tibetan

Tibetan

I took her portrait up on top of the Jokhang Temple.

Tibetan

Tibetan

I ain't never seen snow.

This is Jigme and her sister, Sonam.

The Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies, established in 1960, is the legislature that holds the highest jurisdiction in the society of exiled Tibetans.

Every Tibetan above 25 has the right to stand for election to the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies.

west Tibet Xinjiang

She is a 69 year old nun.

This is the hottest day of the year somewhere in Eastern Tibet, on August 1.

most of Tibet Xinjiang

Parents Murdered . Tibetan Monks Protest Olympic Torch .

He blocked the pain as he had learned to do

Finally, this is a 26 year old nun I spoke to.

And he spent 33 years in prison.

This is, in fact, right here is the valley of Lhasa, right here in Tibet.

TD But before that kind of formal lifestyle happened for me,

He could still have been a bloody Tibetan.

It also monitors the Internet and instructs local media on how to handle any potentially controversial issues, including Tibet, ethnic minorities,

And then work later is going to take us to Tibet.

One year later, how she is.

That hit me so hard, telling these people that had been through this experience.

So, just yesterday, I flew in here from Singapore, and before that,

The pain of Tibet can be impossible to bear, but the redemptive spirit of the people is something to behold.

A meditator.

And they live up on the Chang Tang, the Tibetan Plateau, way in the western part of the country.

You saw a woman who was more clear than a pool of water in a mountain stream.

I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

You don't give a Tibetan a German alias if you want him to be able to visit a bank inconspicuously and draw out large sums of money.

Tibetan monks think that sexual abstinence gives absolute insight.

But we can see the haze from fires and so forth in the Ganges valley down below in India.

This is teaching Photoshop in the Tibetan children's village in Dharamsala.

She decided the only way to be taken seriously was to visit the fabled city of Lhasa in the mountains of Tibet.

The black and white bears living in the mountains in China and Tibet are called 'pandas'.

Mmm. Dorothy Parker, mean, drunk and depressed. Sweeney

If you fall to your left, you're going to fall 8,000 feet into Nepal if you fall to your right, you're going to fall 12,000 feet into Tibet.

And just, I leave you with the beauty of those looks that tells more about happiness than I could ever say.

So I was in Dharamsala meeting these people, and I'd spent about five weeks there, and I was hearing these similar stories of these refugees that had poured out of Tibet into Dharamsala.

Nevertheless, I felt that, even though I've been separated from my loved ones and, of course, now I'm even further away.

When she arrived at the border from India, she was forbidden to cross.

And when I met her, she had just taken a walk over the Himalayas from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, into Nepal, across to India 30 days to meet her leader, the Dalai Lama.

So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there.