By Foad Shafighi All the five pictures in this journal were taken around the Bouddhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal between June and July 2012.

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There are numerous monasteries built around the Bouddhanath stupa. Many monks start their spiritual life from their early childhood years. In the picture a group of monks are doing their daily religious rituals through circumambulating the sacred Buddhist objects inside a monastery.

Based on an old trend among monks, they used to go out of their monastery with an empty bowl to ask for the food, however the process had to be done in the total silence. This monk in the picture used to stand in a corner of the Bouddhanath stupa without a slight movement in total silence for hours each day.

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Everyday around the Bouddhanath stupa, monks, nuns, tourists and the ordinary people start their day by practicing Buddhism in different ways. The nun in the picture is meditating after the prostration practice.

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By Foad Shafighi All the five pictures in this journal were taken around the Bouddhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal between June and July 2012.

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