Nepal
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Essence
The Dharmacakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्र; Pāli: Dhammacakka; Tibetan: འཀོར་ལོ། (chos kyi 'khor lo), Burmese: ဓမ္မစကြာ (IPA: [dəməseʔ tɕà]); Chinese: 法輪; pinyin: fălún), lit. "Wheel of Dharma" or "Wheel of Law" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Nepal
3 weeks backpacking trip to Nepal, where I did the Annapurna Circuit (including side trip to Tilicho Lake) as well as the Annapurna Base Camp trek.
Boudha [Nepal]
Boudha [Nepal], a set by displace on Flickr.
The world oldest and largest stupa (Boudha or Boudhanath) is the landmark of this place. On the outskirt of Kathmandu city, Boudha is now has the largest Tibetan Buddhist community outside Tibet. A spiritual place of Tibetan Buddhism it attracts pilgrims round the world to learn more about the philosophy and various practices.
Boudha is located on the ancient trade route entering Kathmandu Valley from Tibet.
We stayed in this area for 10 days so there were plenty of photo opportunitites for the account of life around the stupa and surrounding backstreets.
Apart from these visual pieces presented here, the resonant Tibetan chants and sounds of drums, bells and other musical instruments from the monasteries and chants from individual devotees circumambulate the stupa every dawn and dusk were the most enchanting experience I ever had. Really love this place!
p.s. most of the pics here contain quotes from various masters such as the 14th Dalai Lama, Shantideva, Soogyal Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Matthieu Ricard etc
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