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Tibetan Man
“At Peace”
This Tibetan man is sitting in front of a large spinning prayer wheel.
Tibet is a land lying above 13,000 feet where only the hardy survive. It’s a land where men sing while plowing their fields with yak who have red tassels tied to their heads; a land where women and children sing while working in a carpet “factory” on large looms or singing as they keep time tapping the freshly poured cement smooth at the Potala, the winter home of the Dalai Lama who lives in exile in India.
Driving from Katmandu, Nepal over passes and across high plateaus, you see many monasteries, prayer wheels, orange robed monks, the Himalayan mountains, Mt. Everest and stones and flags left at the passes in thanksgiving for safe passage, yurts, small villages, nomadic people.
In Lhasa you see people doing prostration's around the Jokhang and people sending their prayers up by spinning large prayer wheels which are filled with prayers written on pieces of paper, people wearing wooden prayer beads, stalls set up with people selling items used for offerings. You hear laughter, chanting and singing. |
