While visiting the Kingdom of Bhutan many times from 1991 onward, I made some deep and extremely precious friendships over the years. These resulted in discussions with several monks about a project to document the spiritual masters of this Buddhist nation. The Bhutan Masters project was established in 2022 with the goal of creating an archive of the country's great lamas, monks, nuns, yogis and hermits, and is currently in its initial phase. The photographs in this collection were taken on my first exploratory trips, accompanied by monks of the Zhung Dratshang (central monastic body), to gather information and leads about some of these masters and the environments in which they practice.