Tibet Continues to Pray

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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The Tashilhunpo Monastery is one of the main centers of the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat order of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a young monk in his ceremonial yellow hat. Tashilhunpo, Shigatse, Tibet.

A Tibetan woman with her baby wrapped up on her back circumambulating the Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet. For Tibetans bearing a child is an act of conscious intention that involves seven distinct stages - and starts before conception.

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A female Tibetan pilgrim doing kora around the Gyantse Kumbum. The Kumbum or great gomang (many-doored) chorten at Gyantse is a three dimensional mandala, meant to portray the Buddhist cosmos. The Kumbum, like other mandalas, which are portrayed by a circle within a square, enables the devotee to take part in the Buddhist perception of the universe and can depict one's potential as they move through it. Mandalas are meant to aid an individual on the path to enlightenment.Gyantse, Tibet.

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Tibet Continues to Pray

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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