The first place winning photograph from the Study Abroad category, The Monks of Drepung (left) was taken by SAS senior David Szerlip while studying abroad in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
The monks of the Drepung monastery gather every day to study the holy scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism. The study got very intense with loud arguments happening throughout the room. In this room alone, there were approximately 300 monks—all working by the natural light coming through the ancient windows. |