Prayer flags planted illegally flutter over a prison camp outside Lhasa, the capital city.


    At the foot of the sacred Potala Palace, children are educated in the Chinese language, often traveling to China to be fully indoctrinated.


    Yaks share the streets in some of the remote towns on the Tibetan plateau.


    Healthcare is rare and rudimentary for Tibetans. This woman’s tumor will be treated with herbs not surgery.


    According to tradition, monks may beg for alms in the market. Chinese officials often take that money needed for food and monastery upkeep.


    A monk prostrates himself as he does his daily prayers around the marketplace surrounding the Jokhang Monastery.


    Now a child’s playground marked with bullet holes, this was once a holy place.


    Even common resources are denied the Tibetans, making travel, education and economic progress difficult.


    These monks work in the underground against their Chinese oppressors. They risk their lives everyday in many ways.


    In a village at the foot of sacred Mt. Kailash, a woman suffers the loss of her baby and her lifeblood with only tea and prayer for medicine.


    The Dali Llama is the hope that most Tibetans cling to.


    Father and son perform their pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash before making a dash over the mountains to freedom.


    The journey can be deadly. This child survived only because a monk carried him to the safety of Dharamsala where many Tibetans live in exile.


    This monk was tortured during his 18 years in Chinese prisons. He lost his teeth to the cattle prod.


    Safely in Dharamsala, India, monks practice their traditional vigorous form of religious debate.