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Monks watch with amusement the efforts of the trainees as they practice dance routines for a festival at the Thiksey Gompa Monastery, near Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, northern India.
October 2015. © David Hill.
Royal Arms of Charles II, 1660 placed the year of his restoration to the throne:
Quarterly 1 and 4, Azure three fleurs de lys or (France) quartered with Gules three lions passant gardant or (England). 2, Or a lion rampant gules a tressure of the second flory and counter flory (Scotland). 3, Azure a harp or strung argent (Ireland). The harp is unusual compared with later Arms, with its lion instead of woman .
Picture with thanks - copyright Andrew H Jackson britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101034855-church-of-st-edith...
McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala in the Himalayan foothills of north India, is the centre of the Tibetan exile world in India since the influx of Tibetan refugees who fled here beginning around 1959, following the Dalai Lama who has officially resided in McLeod Ganj ever since.
The Tsuglagkhang Temple complex is the heart of Tibetan life in the town and is warm, welcoming and always busy with monks in prayer, debating, and going about other daily acts, routines and rituals. Most monks are from Tibet (rather than born in India) and their monastic education is entirely Tibetan, studying language, philosophy, history and geography.
The Tibetan prayer wheels shown here at the Tsuglagkhang Temple are filled with prayers; spinning the wheel is believed to have the same meritorious effect of reciting the enclosed prayers.
There is an intersection on my way to work that has two monk parakeet nests. Every so often I would see the parakeets on the ground. On this day, I stopped to capture this image.
Hay una intersección en mi viaje a mi trabajo que tiene dos nidos de estos pericos monjes. De vez en cuando, los veía en el suelo. En esta ocasión, decidí detenerme para tomar esta imagen.
Ceremony to become a monk for about 9 days. Just before Water Festival and Myanmar New Year, it is the best time of the year to become a monk.
HDR of the infamous Tom's Restaurant. The front of the building served as the establishing exterior facade of the fictitious Monk's Café for the TV show Seinfeld.
It was a rainy day (as usual in rainy season), quite early in the morning (around 7am) in Manoron Wat (Temple), one of the biggest temples in Luang Prabang.
The monks (around 50) where participating in the Alm's Giving ceremony and after walking along the streets, inside the enclosure of the temple, at least 500 people where waiing to participate in the ceremony. There was almost no tourists as the Wat is quite far from the city center and the main hotels.
This monk seemed very old, and despite his deep look and tired aspect was participating, like the others in the ceremony.
Xa non era a primeira vez que pasara con intención de visitalo, pero xa se fixera de noite e non tería sentido. Así que entre este, outro que quería visitar, outro que apareceu polo medio e un máis por face-la coña... por fin pisei o mosteiro de San Pedro de Rocas.
Ten máis de 1.400 anos e, con ese dato na mente ó pasear polo museo ou por entre as tumbas, a perspectiva cambia bastante con respecto ós mosteiros máis coñecidos nas súas actuais configuracións, moito máis grandes e con claustros, tal vez fontes e xardíns.
Nada diso aquí. De reducidas dimensións, a súa situación é axeitada se se quería un lugar de retiro e de estudio. Quizáis sexa agora un lugar pequeno para ser unha única visita pola tarde, incluso se se vai con máis calma ca min cando este era o primeiro de, agora que o penso, seis destinos a visitar, 120 de 320 kms por facer e so unha tarde de principios de outono para todo.
Merece a pena.
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It was not the first time I passed nearby willing to visit it, but night had already fallen and it would be pointless. So with this place in mind, another one that I wanted to visit, another one that came up in the middle and another one for the sake of it... I finally stepped in the monastery of San Pedro de Rocas.
It's over 1.400 years old and, with that figure in mind while walking through the museum or among the tombs, the perspective changes a lot from the most known monasteries and their configurations today, bigger and with cloisters, maybe even fontains and gardens.
Nothing about it here. Being quite small, it's placed in the right spot if a place for retirement and studying was the goal. Perhaps it's now a small place for an only visit in the afternoon, even if you go in a slower mood than me as this was, now that I think about it, the first one out of six places I wanted to visit, 120 out of 320 kms to do and only an afternoon at the beginning of fall for it all.
It's worth it.
I dove in at Monks Siding only to find the light was head on but before I could move the barriers want down, oh well, I will probably be arrested by the "Light Angle and Elevation" Police however I will serve my sentence just to say I have nailed a 31 here in 2013.
Friday 26 April.
New art in an small neighborhood temple by the sea. There are 108 legends about hero-monks and this shows one of them. I don't know the story but this is clearly a sea dragon.
Its really unusual to see a dragon in Chinese art portrayed as dangerous.
I am going to try to learn these 2 stories and add them to the pictures.
(monk with tiger follows)
Xiamen, China
I’ve seen these a few times at my favorite birding spot, the Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco, but never before this close.
Canon M50 Mark II with Canon EF to EF-M adaptor, Kenko TELEPLUS-HD 1.4x DGX extender, and Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM at 350 mm (cropped to 650 mm), f/8, 1/400 second, and ISO 320.