With thanks to npr: “The most obvious thing I learned … was detachment. They lead simple lives and are attached to no material pleasures. They are content with what they have and they derive their happiness through prayer and serving others.” -Photographer Kaushal Parikh, discussing the time he spent photographing Tibetan monks at a small monastery in Himachal Pradesh, India.
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“The most obvious thing I learned … was detachment. They lead simple lives and are attached to no material pleasures. They are content with what they have and they derive their happiness through prayer and serving others.”

-Photographer Kaushal Parikh, discussing the time he spent photographing Tibetan monks at a small monastery in Himachal Pradesh, India.

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