Prostrators
This is one grueling way to become enlightened! Look at their faces; dirty and determined. These prostrators pray as they fall to the ground on hands and knees, slide to flat out face down position, stand up where their head lands, take 2 steps, and repeat the process - over and over. The monks in this photo have been traveling over 1200km for 1 year and 20 days doing this process all day! I don't think I could do this for 1 hour without praying for relief from this misery!!! Notice the wood blocks on their hands, likewise they have them on their knees as well.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
