Monks, momos (meat or vegetable filled dumplings) and monasteries are just some of the things that characterize Tibet, along with the daily hundreds of pilgrims at the Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace in Lhasa. Every morning Tibetan pilgrims, most dressed in traditional outfits, walk clockwise around the Jokhang and Potala saying prayers while holding a prayer wheel in one hand and prayer beads in another. Rain or shine the devoted walk the pilgrim circuit. Some face the Temple or Palace and pray while doing a sort of ‘sun salutation’, a set of yoga postures, where a pilgrim starts upright with arms stretched up and hands pressed together, hands are then brought chest level still in prayer position, then the pilgrim kneels and slides the body towards the temple/palace ending up lying on the stomach with face
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