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The Dalay The Dalay LamaLamais always present with

photos from

the time when

he was forced

to leave TibetTibet

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Postrating Postrating The devotees making a pilgrimage repeatedly measure out their length over their entire journey.

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They often wear hand shoes to protect theirtheir hands

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Tibetan Buddhists Tibetan Buddhists believe, that the making of one hundred prostrations is the first step to acquire a vast number of merits and will bring a profound purification

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This pilgrim has a prayer wheel prayer wheel and Tibetan prayer beadsTibetan prayer beads

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A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather or coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra “Om Om Mani Padme HumMani Padme Hum” is written in Sanskrit on the outside of the wheel

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Acording to the Tibetan Buddhist Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning the wheels, will have the same meritorious effect as orally reciting prayers

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Prayer wheels Prayer wheels are used to acumulate wisdom and merit (good karmagood karma) and to purify negatives (bad karmabad karma)

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The practitioner The practitioner most often spins the wheel clockwise, as the direction in which the mantras are written is that of the movement of the sun across the sky

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This woman, dressed in a mixture of occidental and Tibetan manner, was a pious pilgrim with a bracelet of Tibetan Tibetan prayer beads prayer beads in her hand while going round the cylinder wheels at the Jokhag MonasteryJokhag Monastery

OM MANI PADME HOMOM MANI PADME HOM

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Monk with phone

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This stone is placed at the entrance of the Potala PalacePotala Palace, in Lhasa, Lhasa, with information in English, Tibetan, Chinese (traditional and simplificated), sanscrit and more…

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 Smoke from the yack butter candles burning inside

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I was told, that the pilgrims believe, that they, by their oscillating and the spinning of their prayer wheels ,rouse the movements of the planets in the heavens…

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…, the dance of the electrons around the nucleus and the recurring circle of circle of lifelife..

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Each revolution

of the prayerprayer

wheel is as meritorious as

reading the inscription aloud as many

times, as it is

written on the

scroll

This means that the more Om Mani Padme Hum Om Mani Padme Hum mantras that are inside a prayer wheel, the more powerful it is

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This mode of prostration expresses the maximum devotion by exaggerating the difficulty of their journey

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A view over the prostrating pilgrims from the top of Joklang Monastery