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After Sera Monastery, we went to another famous monastery, Drepung Monastery (哲蚌寺). In Lhasa, this is the most superordinate among the six Tibetan monasteries.
We arrived just in time as the monks gathered together for debate. They welcome visitors to take photos as long as you don't get too close. Most of the time, photographers and I just took photos at the side so that we made as little interruption as we could.
Throughout the debate, the monks spoke in Tibetan which none of us understood but the way they debate was very interesting which I will explain in the next photo :)
Location: Drepung Monastery, China (Lhasa)
This chap is said to have broken the heart of every girl in the village when he decided to become a monk.
Each morning at about 6.00 am I hear monks chanting. This morning I caught them. There are a few women with food prepared who wait on the roadside, next to the Mekong in view from my balcony. The monks receive their contributions one by one and then make a separate line further along the street. When the last has received his food they chant while the women sit respectfully.
Love how people respect these endangered mammals. Whenever they decide to land on a beach, somebody will put up a "border" for people to keep away and nobody seem to cross that line.
Hundreds of freshly washed and folded "monk laundry"--Buddhist monks' golden robes. In the back room of Wat Panan Choeng, Ayutthaya, Thailand. December 2005.
The monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), also known as the Quaker parrot, is a small, bright-green parrot with a greyish breast and greenish-yellow abdomen. In most taxonomies, it is classified as the only member of the genus Myiopsitta. It originates from the temperate to subtropical areas of Argentina and the surrounding countries in South America. Self-sustaining feral populations occur in many places, mainly in North America and Europe.
The monk parakeet is the only parrot that builds a stick nest, in a tree or on a man-made structure, rather than using a hole in a tree. This gregarious species often breeds colonially, building a single large nest with separate entrances for each pair. In the wild, the colonies can become quite large, with pairs occupying separate "apartments" in nests that can reach the size of a small automobile.
These nests can attract many other tenants including birds of prey such as the spot-winged falconet (Spiziapteryx circumcincta), ducks such as the yellow-billed teal (Anas flavirostris), and even mammals. Their five to 12 white eggs hatch in about 24 days.
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praying for god's liver. Litanies as a clumsy meticulous wizardry to get the blessing of the void and holy oblivium
A four story monk statue atop a new temple. I prefer it in this state .. In a year it will be all gold paint and mirror glass.
A view of the interior of Monk's Pub, a favorite lunch spot of mine on Lake Street downtown. This venue has been here since the 1970s and has a great atmosphere.
I am fascinated by monks too and I promised myself to take photos of them. I asked them to pose for me. LOL! Blogged
Monk's Restaurant, where the Seinfeld gang hangs out, is actually called Tom's Restaurant and is a very popular diner in Uptown Manhattan.
I'm thinking this will maybe be the most famous restaurant in my diner series...
It was 6 weeks ago, when were wandering in a small village in the periphery of Inle Lake. It was as idyllic as a rural setup could get. There was a stream flowing by. Paddy fields dominated the landscape with their lush-green colour. The vista of the landscape ended in distant hills decorated by rain bearing clouds. Water buffaloes wandered the open fields, grazing quietly. Sun shined occasionally through the clouds. Row-boats passed through the stream once-in-a-while. Children frolicked by the house-verandas and on the streets. Life moved slowly, gently and unassumingly.
I was lost in this happiness and had completely ignored this monastery, and the monk who stood by the window, watching the same spectacle as I did. I turned around in a moment of unawareness, and suddenly awakened by the beauty of the place. Camera shutter released in an instant.
Some Monks during their study time reading the buddhist scripts.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.