visiting Xiahe

Chortens, or stupas, are bell-shaped Tibetan temples with a spike on the top. Built with money donated by rich supplicants, these solid structure usually contain a sacred object such as a body part from an influential deceased monk, an important inscription from a sacred text, or a votive tablets molded from ashes of the dead. The base of the stupa is sealed with a copper plate inscribed with a vishva-vajra crossed thunderbolt design that is regarded as protection from evil.

Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་

June 5th 2013
Bonjour à tous! Comme vous pourrez le constater, j’ai écrit un (trop) long email en anglais donc je vais essayer de faire plus court en français. Je suppose que vous avez bien d’autres choses à faire que de lire mes péripéties sur les routes de campagne de Chine et puis, de mon coté à Pékin le temps est super ensoleillé et j’aimerais bien en profiter au plus vite ! Je suis rentr ... read more

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