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These are pilgrims at the Jokhang temple. They are lighting butter lamps. You can see that there are hundreds of butter lamps. The turquoise beads in the ladies hair shows where they come from. Each part of Tibet traditionally wear different clothes. The lady in the brown dress comes from adifferent place. The white mask is used in winter instead of a scarf. |
| This is also at the Jokhang Temple. These pilgrims are circumabulation the inner circle of the temple. This inner circle is surrounded by prayer wheels. Inside the prayer wheels are strips of paper with prayers written on them. As the pigrims walk by the spin the prayer wheels releasing prayers into the atmosphere. |
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These two ladies are pilgrims in the Jokhang temple. The Jokhang temple is considered the central or the most improtant place of Tibetan Buddhism. From the clothes one can tell that these ladies are not from Lhasa. In there hands you see two small, personal prayer wheels and some prayer beads. In the background you see another man with prayer beads. |
| This is the Barkhor. Every day you see pilgrims circumambulating the Barkhor. It is the middle circle that goes around the Jokhang Temple. It actually goies around the outside of the temple. The out circle goes around the old city of Lhasa with the Jokhang as the center. All along the Barkhor there are kiosks that sell all kinds of things. They especially sell items of worship such a prayer wheels, prayer beads, and incense. They also sell anything that would be of interest to the pilgrims. So here you can find Tibetan clothes, monk robes, tsampa, the things to make butter tea, etc. | |
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These are pilgrims circumambulating the temple of the Long Life Buddha. Many pilgrims come to this temple because they believe it will give them long life if perform acts of worship here. The apron on the ladies in most part of Tibet signifies that they are married. again notice the prayer beads and prayer wheels. |
| This is a man and either his son or grandson, who were circumabulating the Potala Palace, where the Dalai Lamas used to live. Notice the prayer wheels in the background. And also you can see the personal prayer wheel he has. Inside the personal prayer wheels are also strips of paper with prayers written on them. The pilgrims spin them as they walk and talk and anything else they do. By doing that they again are releasing prayers into the atmosphere. The "coat" he is wearing is called a chuba. It is usually lined with wool. They are very warm. |
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What you see on this web page is what we see here every day. Every where you go you see pilgrims. The old people, especially, will always be saying prayers or spinning prayer wheels or using their prayer beads and other things like that.
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