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Archival photos from 1993

1993... the year of Jurassic Park, Bill Clinton and the dawn of the internet. Meanwhile, at Skanda Vale, monks & nuns were hard at work...
Swami Karunananda and Valli

All photos copyright Tom Learmonth 1993.

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