In this photo taken by John Smagula , Tibetan prayer flags, known to local residents as wind horses, hang high over the plunging precipices near Ganden Monastery. Believers hope that spirits floating through the air will encounter the prayer flags in their travels. The photograph is a 10"x7" color image. Photograph comes with a custom-cut white mat for an 11"x14" frame. Frame not included.

John Smagula was a Yale-China Law Fellow from 2000-2002 at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, as a part of the Yale-China Association's Law Fellows Program. The program sends young, Mandarin-speaking U.S.-trained attorneys to China to teach courses on U.S. and international legal practices and standards at Chinese law schools. Yale-China Law Fellows have also helped to pioneer the field of clinical legal education in China.