Tom Johnson photographs the basketball-playing monks of Dharamsala's Martyrs tournament

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At the end of 2018, London-based photographer Tom Johnson travelled to Dharamsala, a city in India at the foot of the Himalayas, home to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile. A stunning landscape steeped in history and home to the Thekchen Chöling Temple Complex, the spiritual centre for Tibetan Buddhism, Tom returned, as you’d imagine, with images full of robe-toting monks. They are not, as you’d also imagine, meditating and studying, however, but playing basketball.

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March 29, 2019 at 01:45PM Posted by Its That Nice https://ift.tt/2V3YKNy