Photo of the Day 384

Stone Buddha, Lhasa, Tibet, 2003

Photograph by Galen Rowell

A tourist admires a brightly painted Buddha etched into the rock of a pilgrimage site near Lhasa, Tibet. The statue shows the Buddha in the earth-touching position with characteristic elongated earlobes and holding a begging bowl.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "275 Miles on Foot Through the Remote Chang Tang," April 2003, National Geographic magazine)