Marilyn Silverstone Lama and acolytes surprised by visitors in the Lakhang Sarp of the Tashichho Dzong. On the left, tabular victory banners called gyaltsen, symbolic of the Victory of Liberation won by Buddha, hang i (...)
Marilyn Silverstone A carved and painted shrine at a wayside water source. The letters spell the mantra of compassion. The six colors represent the six regions of Samsara (worldly existence). Such shrines are meant to (...)
Marilyn Silverstone The banner, called Sridpa Ho, is a diagram of the secret astrological mechanism that governs the physical world. Displayed at the start of any activity intended to advert evil spirits, the banner i (...)
Marilyn Silverstone A Pemayangtse Lama performing the Black Hat dance during a Sikkimese New Year ceremony. Enacted at the end of the cold year, this rite can only be performed by a spiritually attained tantric Lama, (...)
Marilyn Silverstone The Pemayangtse, who are also royal priests, reciting prayers in conjunction with ceremonies performed by the Black Hat during Sikkimese New Year. Gangtok, Sikkim, India. December, 1963. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone The Maharaja of Rajpipla appears to the cloistered women of the palace the morning after his wedding to their princess. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. India. 1964. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone At the height of the blizzard a young boy paddles his shikara skiff, which is now heaped with snow. Lake Dal shores, Srinagar, Kashmir. 1968. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone The Maharaja of Rajpipla is helped onto his horse as he prepares to enter the fort for his marriage to the princess of Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. India. 1964. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone Long prayer banners, called Dar Chok, printed with mantras, flutter over a cremation ground. When a person is cremated, up to 108 of these banners are erected so that the air passing through them w (...)
Marilyn Silverstone Doorway to the Lakhang Sarp in the courtyard of the Tashichho Dzong. Thimphu, Bhutan. 1964. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone The wedding of the Maharaja's son. In the zenana (women's quarters of the City Palace), the Maharani of Jaipur (in pink), the groom's sister, the Maharani of Baria, and other women await the formal (...)
Marilyn Silverstone INDIA. Rajasthan. Dewata village. 1966. Prem SINGH and his sons eating makki-ki-roti (cornmeal bread). Women cook and serve the men who eat alone. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone Women living in purdah (seclusion), peer out of the windows in their quarter of the City Palace to catch a glimpse of the Maharaja’s son during his wedding. Jaipur, India. 1966. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone A National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi, Acharya Vinoba Bhave, at the Ranipatra ashram. Northern Bihar, India. 1966. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone Warrior dancers, attendants of the sacred Mt. Kanchenjunga and defenders of the Dharma, during the Sikkimese New Year dances. Gangtok, Sikkim. 1968. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone The head of a lotus, bent over by snow. Srinagar, Kashmir. 1968. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone Hungry dogs and crows gather around the butchering of a sheep on the lake shore near the Hazratbal Mosque. Srinagar, Kashmir, India. 1968. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone KASHMIR. Srinagar. 1968. By 4 in the afternoon the waterways through the town of Hazratbal are cold and bleak. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone KASHMIR. Srinagar. Dal Lake. 1968. A young woman brushes the fresh snow off her ice bound dunga, the floating homes in which many Kashmiris live. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone Visitors climb to the monastery above. Lachen, North Sikkim. 1971. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone NEPAL. Near Pokhara. December 1968. Jeep decorated with the Nepalese flag, a portrait of King Mahendra, and poinsettias. In the background: Machha Puchhare, the Fishtail mountain. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone INDIA. Ladakh. 1969. Indian army training at an altitude between 11 000 and 20 000 feet. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone KASHMIR. Srinagar. Dal lake. 1968. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
Marilyn Silverstone INDIA. SIKKIM. North. Near the hotsprings at Yumthang. 1971. Man holding blue Meconopsis. © Marilyn Silverstone | Magnum Photos
