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round the prayer wheel  
   

round the prayer wheel

in kangding/dartsedo a humble monastery with a sombre prayer wheel. The faces were alight, happy or surprised to see a foreigner there, and eager to show me how to give it a spin.
frontier town?

June 26th 2005
I am in a town about a 6-7 hour smooth bus ride west from Chengdu and is said to be star tracks final frontier between C and T communities, at least according to the lonely planet bible. They have it wrong. It is overwhelmingly a C town, with ethnic Ts living amidst the normal C style city, concrete box, utilitarian construction. The shops are mainly C run, save for some shoebox food shop ... read more
Asia » China

Chinese Flag 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
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