This is the high pass before you enter the Spiti valley, its around 4500ish and therefore not one of the highest. There are three stupas with a road around and the buses make a respectful circuit of the stupas before heading down (and they stop for a few minutes too, for photo’s/toilet ect).
Posts Tagged ‘buddhist’
Kumzum La
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist on 12 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chortens
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, chorten, tibetan on 11 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are always placed at the most windy places to carry the prayers on the prayer flags furthest.
Mani Stones
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, mani stones, tibetan on 11 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They have the Buddhist prayer “Om Mani Padme Hum” written in Tibetan script.
Chortens
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 10 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These where part of the monastery complex.
Thiksey Monastary
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, monastary, tibetan on 10 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a monastery about 15km from Leh town (local buses go there frequently).
Prayer Flags
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, prayer flags on 1 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love these prayer flags. These are from the Chang La.
Monastary
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 1 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure what this is called, It was on the way to Pangong Tao (Lake) where I headed for a night camping with the South African girls. This turned out surprisingly well as it was taken from a moving jeep from the middle seat at the back.
Buddhist Library
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, library on 1 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many Tibetan monasteries and temples have a library which contains, sometimes wrapped in cloth, the Tibetan Buddhist texts, in the beautiful Tibetan Script. Incidentally the Ladakhi language and Tibetan language script is the same although the languages are different, but related.
Chorten Arch
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 1 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are a few of these scattered around the old city in Leh. Most westerners have to stoop a bit to go under them as they are about 5′6″high roughly.
Local man with Prayer wheels
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 1 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These prayer wheels are found all over Leh.
Tibetan wall painting
Posted in India, photography, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 1 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is just a detail from one of the wall paintings, I have no idea what the text means.
Indian Holidaymakers
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist on 30 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next destination was a place where Indian holidaymakers come predominantly. Dalhousie, a hill station which, like many places in the mountains in India, has a Tibetan population and hence these Buddhist paintings and Tibetan Script are here.
We where only in Dalhousie for 3 nights, and it seemed to rain a lot in this [...]
Prayer Wheels
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, prayer wheel, tibetan on 14 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are of the set of prayer wheels found in the centre of Mcloed Ganj.
Stupa
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, tibetan on 14 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a Buddhist Stupa found on the walking path around the temple. The path, called the chora (im not sure how its spelt) is designed for the monks and lay people do a walking meditation around.
Prayer Flags
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, prayer flags, tibetan on 14 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are some prayer flags near the temple in Mcloed Ganj. The idea behind them is that the wind carries the prayers away, so they are often placed in very windy places like mountaintops.
Mural from Tibetan Temple
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, mural, tibetan on 25 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the town of Bodh Gaya there are Buddhist temples from most of the other Buddhist countrys. This is a mural from just inside one of the Tibetan temples.
Meditating under the Bhodi Tree
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, monk on 25 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many people use the area under the Bhodi tree to meditate and silence is encoraged. Stangely all of the silence please signs are in English and all the people who talk in this area area chatting in Hindi. This is not the same monk from the earlier photograph, but there are many around [...]
The Bhodi Tree Itself
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged bhodi, buddha, buddhist, ficus, tree on 25 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the tree under which Buddhism started. Its known as a Bhodi or Bo tree. Ficus religiosa is its scientific classification name but its a lovely shady tree under which to do anything including meditate.
Monk walking in meditation
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, monk, tibetan on 25 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is a circuit around the Mahabodi temple (in Bodh Gaya, Bihar) were monks, nuns and other people walk around in a walking meditation. They often carry and manipulate a mala, which is a string of beads kinda like a rosary but with 108 beads and a separate joining bead, the beads can be [...]
Sarnath archeological site
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged buddhist, sarnath, temple on 25 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of the few similar temples found in Sarnath which is 10km from Varanasi. It is the place where the Buddha gave his first sermon after achieving enlightenment in Bhod Gaya and then he travelled to Sarnath. I’m not sure the exact distance but it takes about 5 hours on train and [...]
