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Welcome to the SPIN 2001 Photo Gallery!

Click on the below images to see a larger version. New pictures and text will be added as they are received from the field. Please visit periodically, as this site will be a dynamic one, changing as new content is received from the SPIN 2001 participants, as well as suggestions from visitors to the site.

If you have suggestions for improvements to this site, please email the webmaster (Robert Vidrine).

Lindsey, Joe and Carolyn outside the Hotel Tibet, whose staff welcomed us so warmly. Tibetan Lama Instructs Students in SPIN. Morgan in front of the Bodhanath Stupa, the largest Tibetan Buddhist Stupa in Nepal. His Holiness, Sakya Trijin Rinpoche blesses the masses. Lauren learns to spin wool at a Tibetan carpet factory. Spin Students visit the Temple, Buddha Amitaaba. Carolyn poses with Indian pilgrims at Swayambhunath. A young boy in Bungamati takes Joe to school playing ping pong. Machhapuchhre from the city of Pokhara. Stephen at the Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute. Young Nepali Woman Weaving Tibetan Carpet. Students on campus at Prithvi Narayan Campus of Tribhuvan University. Shopping in Pokhara. A Corn Mill in Rural Nepal. Liz celebrates our last night on the trek. A mule train in Birethanti. Forest during a monsoon. Children of Damaai Gaun. Traditional round house in Sirubari. Smiths sharpen tools. Gurung hospitality in Sirubari.

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SPIN is organized and led by Dr. Steven Folmar, Lecturer at Wake Forest University. Dr. Folmar has conducted a total of 22 months of field work in Nepal in 1979-80, 1991, 2002 and 2003.