http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog Travel & Documentary Photography Musings Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:29:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:37:02 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=58 Pattu is the traditional dress of the local women. When compared to shawls, it is thicker and heavier and the colors used are fast and bright. This woolen fabric is woven in different colors (usually bright) and designs. A single piece of Pattu covers the whole body. A piece of cloth called gachchi (belt) is tied around the waist...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/feed/ 0 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:10:05 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=46 Thangkas were originally intended to serve as a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. They were intended to convey iconographic information in a pictorial manner. A text of the same meditation would supply similar details in written descriptive form. Here's a multimedia story on the making of these scrolls...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/feed/ 1