His Holiness, the XIVth Dalai Lama, teaching a lesson on Arya Nagarjuna - Bodhicittavivarana (Janchup Semdrel) - to the Vietnamese community at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub) is the 14th Dalai Lama, a spiritual leader revered among the people of Tibet. He is the head of the government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India. Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors. Tenzin Gyatso is the leader of the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
East German guard approaches West German teen on top of Berlin Wall in front of Brandenburg Gate during the first day of access, November, 1989. ©Tina Manley
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GUATEMALA, BELLA VISTA: Faviana Maldonar in traditional Mam Mayan dress of handwoven huipil, corte, and cinta and her wheelchair-bound husband Manuel (who was paralyzed during the Guatemalan Civil War) in their adobe home in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala.
PERU, CHINCHERO: Quechua woman in hat distinctive of her village drinks chicha, corn beer fermented with saliva, and laughs with her daughter at the Sunday market in the village of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
PERU, CHINCHERO: Elderly Quechua woman in distinctive hat from the village of Chinchero at the Sunday market in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
PERU, CUSCU: Moonrise over Cusco, Peru, as lights begin to come on in the city.
PERU, MACHU PICCHU: Llama standing in front of Machu Picchu beside the Caretaker's Hut with Huayna Picchu in the background and the Urubamba river below. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
HONDURAS, BONETE: Gloria, a young Chorti Maya girl living in a remote farming village in the mountains of Honduras, dances as rain begins to fall in the rainy season.
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