From Kasar Devi, Govinda and Li Gotami undertook journeys to Tibet in the late 1940s, making a large number of paintings, drawings and photographs. These travels are described in Govinda's book "The Way of the White Clouds". While on the expedition to Tsaparang and Tholing in Western Tibet in 1948–49, sponsored by the "Illustrated Weekly of India", Govinda received initiations in the Nyingma and Sakyapa lineages. Pictures of the Tsaparang frescoes taken by Li Gotami, then, before the Cultural Revolution, still intact appear in Govinda's "The Way of the White Clouds" "Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism" and "Tibet in Pictures" (co-authored with Li Gotami).