India initiative
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Image List:
Image 1: Manuel Gomez, UCI vice chancellor emeritus for student affairs, reads a book with a student at the Tibetan Children's Village library in Dharamsala, India.
Image 2: The UCI group also visited the Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India, one of the world's most recognizable – and beautiful – buildings.
Image 3: Young Tibetan monks at the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Mundgod, India, stare out at tourists.
Image 4: Elaborate doors lead into the Gaden Shartse Monastery, which UCI students visited to learn about monastic life and education.
Image 5: A UCI graduate student stands at the doors to the Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India.
Image 6: Young monks at the Gaden Shartse Monastery hurry to a UCI presentation on campus life.
Image 7: A residential neighborhood offers a glimpse of life in Dharamsala, India.
Image 8: A toddler peeks through a window at the Tibetan Children's Village, a boarding school for young refugees.
Image 9: Tibetan prayer flags like these near the Gaden Shartse Monastery inspired UCI's 2008 Peace Flag Project, in which 1,000 flags encircled Aldrich Park to raise awareness of ongoing armed conflicts around the world.
Image 10: A young tulku (a reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist master) is silhouetted at the Gaden Shartse Monastery.
Image 11: UCI's 2009-10 Dalai Lama Scholar, Jasmine Fang, visits a classroom at the Gaden Shartse Monastery.
Image 12: Manuel Gomez, UCI vice chancellor emeritus for student affairs, shares his iPhone photos with students at a Tibetan refugee camp in Mundgod, India.
Image 13: A monk sweeps a courtyard at the Gaden Shartse Monastery.
Image 14: UCI students, staff and administrators pose with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama after a lecture by the Tibetan spiritual leader in his Dharamsala temple.
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