16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje Size:large

16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje Size:largeThe 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924 1981) wearing the black crown (shwa nag) of the Kagyud order of Buddhism seated on chair in a room in his summer palace at Tsurphu. There are flower pots beside him and a display of clocks behind him. The wall behind him is composed of decorated panels and there are religious images behind glass panes. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that

and the (the mountain) Jebel Hafit visible in the distance

The falcon rests on the falconer's mangalah (cuff) on one hand

Their quarry

as seen from a distance

on which many flies sit

On the far left a fourth member of the party crouches on the stoney ground

in order to prevent sand jamming the mechanism

In the distance beyond Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels in a line across an expanse of sand

riding a camel in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

Seated portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya

past a sand bank and the many moored dhows that line the shore

Portrait of sheikhs at Abu Dhabi