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Exploring Lhasa
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On top of the World
We made it to Tibet. And we are the lucky ones because most groups are still being denied permits to travel here. Bonnie our tour guide reckons we must have all met in a previous life and that karma has blessed us, I'd tend to agree.
The flights over were uneventful (apart from taking off from Abu Dhabi in the middle of a lightning storm …
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The road to Lhasa
... huffing like the Marlboro Man for the first couple of days), and he took us to Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery, and Jokhang Temple, and explained about Buddhist history, Tibetan history before and after the "liberation" by the Chinese, and about the ...
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The Heart of the Supine Ogress
... luck with love" type of feng shui (which means "wind and water" in Chinese and is their form of geomancy). The Jokhang Temple is also deemed sacred for the relicts contained within it. The most important of these is the Jowo Shakyamuni, representing the ...
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Lhasa, on the roof of the world
... mingle with Westerners and Asian tourists. All the streets seem eventually to lead to the Barkhor Market which surrounds the Jokhang temple. We join the clockwise throng of people circumambulating the Barkhor where it seems impossible to attempt it ...
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Temples and Tempests
... by the lack of basic rights of expression for these peaceful people. Later that afternoon, we visit another holy site, the Jokhang Temple. The temple is in the very center of old Lhasa, and is one of the holiest sites in Tibetan Buddhism because of the ...
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We've been good boys
... forward to, eh? · What a waste We're probably never going to reach 'enlightenment' for asking this but after visiting the Jokhang Temple yesterday myself and Pat are left wondering why anyone would want to be a monk. All they seem to do is sit ...
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New PR offensive on Tibet
... Tibetan told "At that time, there were many people fighting with dogs for food on streets in Lugu in the southwest of Jokhang Temple". Nowadays, Tibetan people have much longer life expectancy with current 67 years old from 35.5 years old in the old ...
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Loopy Lhasa
... Sera monastery; passed a huge prison; wonder how many political prisoners are locked away in there indefinitely?? Snuck into the jokhang temple for free, with all the pilgrims and our swedish friend Rickard. Quite honestly, just this temple makes the ...
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Seven Days in Tibet
... I'd got out the bathroom Penny and Tenzin had gone. Ali and I tried to find them, but couldn't. I ended up walking around Jokhang Temple on the pilgrimage circuit which was fun with all the monks. Met up with Penny for lunch who told us that Tenzin ...
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Still in Lhasa
... the Barkhor circuit. The Barkhor is basically a market square where the pilgrims come to walk around before paying their respects at the Jokhang temple. We completed the circuit but there was no way we were going to pay the 90 Yuan to visit the temple, ...
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The people of Lhasa
... Hotel ( 15 Yuan per night for a dorm bed) which is just down the road from the spiritual heart of Tibet, the Jokhang Temple. The temple is in the midst of the Barkhor area, the only real Tibetan stronghold left in a sinicized city. Around the Jokhand is ...
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