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As Tibet is a very religious country you will encounter symbols of Buddhism everywhere.
This truck is decorated with some of the colorful symbols.
Some of the symbols:
- The Swastika is a good-luck symbol from India. In Buddhist tradition, it symbolizes the feet of the Buddha. Modern Tibetan Buddhism uses it as a clothing decoration.
- The Eternal Knot symbolises that everything is interrelated. Having no beginning or end, it also represents the infinite wisdom of the Buddha.
-The Eight-Spoked Wheel symbolises the Buddha's turning the Wheel of Truth. The 8 spokes represent the eightfold path to salvation.
- The sun and the moon represented the source of light, but today it is a symbol for hapiness and protection against evil spirits.
Written Aug 19, 2004
Website: http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/general_symbols_buddhism.html
A pilgrimage route leads from the Drigung Til monastery along the Tidrun Nunnery and the medicinal hot springs. This route will cost you a day to walk.
Many locals do walk the route, in the case of the picture it are some nuns.
Written Aug 18, 2004
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In Tibet they give the death a skyburial. When a person dies the body is kept in a sitting position for 24 hours while the lama prays from the book of death to help the soul find its way to a next life. Three days after death the body is blessed and offerings are made to the monastery. The body is folded up and carried to the dürto (burial place) by a good friend. There are specialized monks that cut open the body so the vultures can get to it. During this cutting the birds kept at a distance by men with sticks. When the body is prepared the vultures come in and eat all the flesh from the bones. They are chased away and the bone breakers are pounding the bones with tsampa, the vultures come in once more and eat the rest.
The Tibetans see this as a disposal of the empty body, since the important soul has already left. It is difficult to not be touched by this ritual as a westerner, especially when the disseased is a child. It was a very intense experience, but one we wouldn't like to have missed. It makes it easier to understand once you saw it.
Ofcourse we didn't take pictures of this ritual, not only because the signs said so.
Written Aug 17, 2004
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