Thursday, January 13, 2005

Prayer cairn, 1924


cairn, originally uploaded by mutikonka1.

"A Land of Mechanical Prayer" -

In the Tibetan villages of Yunnan ... sacred Mani pyramids line the road in great piles. Some of the stones are many feet high and represent years of labour spent by lamas in carving and placing them.
- Joseph Rock.

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