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Mounds of 'mani' stones dot the landscape as offerings to local spirits, inscribed with Avlokiteshvara's chant

INDIA | Saturday, 12 January 2013 | Views [348] | View Smaller Image

Mounds of 'mani' stones dot the landscape as offerings to local spirits, inscribed with Avlokiteshvara's chant "Om mani padme hum". According to Buddhist doctrine we are to pass them from the left, in keeping with the clockwise revolution of the universe.

 

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