July/August 2005 | Trongsa, Bhutan

Reader Randall Brown caught these Buddhist monks leaving their quarters at Bhutan’s Trongsa Dzong (a fortress-temple built in its present form in 1644), located in the ancestral home of the Bhutanese royal family. Centuries ago caravans registered here when traveling from eastern to western Bhutan, the last independent Buddhist kingdom in the lower Himalayas. Of his 25-day tour, Brown says, “I couldn’t have been closer to the people and their lives.”

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