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tompt Says: The hot springs at the Tidrum nunnery are said to be healing. There are seperate baths for men and women. As the baths are on a pilgrimage route it can be very busy there.We didn't try the baths but some of our group did and liked it. Only the tourleader was too...
tompt Says: Close to the Drigung Til monastery is a nunnery called Tidrum. A pilgrimage route leads from the Drigung Monastery to the Tidrum nunnery and the medicinal hot springs. This path takes about a day to walk (16 km between Tidrum and Drigung), many pilgrims do that.The nunnery...
Monastery guesthouse: stay in the monastery
tompt Says: For a small fee you can stay in the monastery guesthouse. The monastery has no restaurant or food for sale, so you have to bring your own. Boiled water is supplied.
festival grounds at the monastery: Camping with 100,000 others
tompt Says: Our normal small iglo tents were quit different from the Tibetan tents. They had bigger tents, that sleep a whole family, sometimes decorated with religious colourfull symbols. Some were traditional nomad tents made of the black Yak-hair. But most were not waterproof, as the...
tompt Says: There is no public transport from Lhasa to Zhigung monastery, but you can get a bus from Lhasa to Medro Gungkar. From where you have to get a ride. It can be very quiet on this road so this will take a while. The best alternative is to rent a vehicle. You can also try to...
tompt Says: 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....
tompt Says: 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.
tompt Says: 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...
tompt Says: Every 12 year in the year of the ape (2004-2016-2028) there is a religious festival at the Drigung Til monastery, located 120 km northeast of Lhasa.The festival is in honor of women, children and fertility. High Lamas of the Drigung Kagyu sect come from India and other...
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For a small fee you can stay in the monastery guesthouse. The monastery has no restaurant or food for sale, so you have to bring your own. Boiled water is...
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The Drigung Powa Chenmo is a religious festival held once every 12 years, in the year of the ape. The festival honors women, children and fertility. Since 1959 the festival was forbidden. In 2004 the...
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