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  • Monk Clothing and Accessories shop - Barkhor Square is an area of narrow streets and a public square located around Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. <br />
Barkor Square has been the most important devotional place for a circumabulation or "kora" for Tibetan pilgrims for centuries.  Most of the alleys have been demolished in recent years and replaced with wider streets by the Chinese government.
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  • Tibetan Novice Monks taking a break from their kora circumnavigation at Barkhor Square.
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  • Debating Monks at Sera Monastery - One of the striking features of Tibetan monk debates is that they are quite physical. They are marked by emphatic gestures such as the loud clapping of hands used by the questioner to punctuate each question.  These gestures have great symbolic value though debaters are rarely aware of such symbolic meanings, at the time. For them, the clapping and gestures  bring them a clarity that can help mobilize the intellectual capacities of the debaters and capture the attention of the audience.
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  • Debating Monks at Sera Monastery - One of the striking features of Tibetan monk debates is that they are quite physical. They are marked by emphatic gestures such as the loud clapping of hands used by the questioner to punctuate each question.  These gestures have great symbolic value though debaters are rarely aware of such symbolic meanings, at the time. For them, the clapping and gestures  bring them a clarity that can help mobilize the intellectual capacities of the debaters and capture the attention of the audience.
    debating-tibetan-monks-3.jpg
  • Debating Monks at Sera Monastery - One of the striking features of Tibetan monk debates is that they are quite physical. They are marked by emphatic gestures such as the loud clapping of hands used by the questioner to punctuate each question.  These gestures have great symbolic value though debaters are rarely aware of such symbolic meanings, at the time. For them, the clapping and gestures  bring them a clarity that can help mobilize the intellectual capacities of the debaters and capture the attention of the audience.
    debating-tibetan-monks-1.jpg
  • Tibetan Monks having a chat on the streets of Lhasa at Barkhor Square
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  • Sera Monastery is one of the most important Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet.  Sera housed more than 5,000 monks in 1959 though few remain today. Although badly damaged following the invasion of Tibet and the Cultural Revolution, it is still standing and has been largely repaired.
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  • Sera Monastery is one of the most important Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet.  Sera housed more than 5,000 monks in 1959 though few remain today. Although badly damaged following the invasion of Tibet and the Cultural Revolution, it is still standing and has been largely repaired.
    sera-monastery-2.jpg
  • Painting a Mandala at Dropeling in Lhasa, a cooperative to aid native Tibetan artists and artisans -  Thangka Painters -  A thangka is a painted or embroidered Buddhist banner which is hung in a monastery or a family altar and occasionally carried by monks in ceremonial processions. Sometimes a thangka is called a scroll painting.  Originally, thangka painting became popular among traveling monks because the scroll paintings were easily rolled and transported from monastery to monastery. These thangka served as important teaching tools depicting the life of the Buddha, various influential lamas and other deities and bodhisattvas. One popular subject is The Wheel of Life.
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  • Tibetan Monks Bodhnath Temple Kora - Boudhnath stupa is the largest in Nepal. Its massive white dome looms over concentric ascending terraces. There are 108 images of the Buddha set around the base of the stupa. Tibetan Buddhist monastery is headquartered here and a large Tibetan community resides in the area, who make their daily "kora" circling the stupa, twirling prayer wheels as they pass.  UNESCO has declared Bouddhanath a World Heritage Site.
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  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
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  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
    gandan-monastery-3.jpg
  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
    gandan-monastery-1.jpg
  • Sera Monastery is one of the most important Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet.  Sera housed more than 5,000 monks in 1959 though few remain today. Although badly damaged following the invasion of Tibet and the Cultural Revolution, it is still standing and has been largely repaired.
    sera-monastery-4.jpg
  • Kora is performed by walking around a temple or other sacred site.  Kora many be performed while spinning prayer wheels, chanting mantra or repeatedly prostrating oneself. In this way a kora acts as a meditative exercise. In accordance with Buddhist tradition, a kora is always performed in a clockwise direction and is performed 108 times.
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  • Tibetan Monk Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche devoted considerable efforts to founding and sustaining temples and monasteries where the study and practice of Buddhism could be undertaken. One of his last great tasks was the founding of a new Shechen monastery in Nepal to replace the destroyed one in Tibet.  Fifty sculptors, painters, goldsmiths, silversmiths and builders flocked to the site from Bhutan, Tibet and India to take part in the work.
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