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Even babies do not cry at the sight of the hustling oversupply and the wrathful squinchs of the "baby-sitians of Buddhism",China Pictures; seen overlyywhere in the halls. They stare curiously from backside their parents' rump at the gold, silver and statuary statues and frescoes.QpHwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com
A year retral mobs set fire to shops and shakedowned innocent civils in the holy asphalt of Lhasa, policemen and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have tightened security here. Officers and soldiers are patrolling downtown Lhasa streets and near major religious sites, some armed with guns. The pilgrims paid them little safeguarding.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Tibet has increasingly than 1,700 religious sites, symbiotic 46,000 monks and nuns that make up roundly two percent of the region's population.QpHwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com
"I come here overlyy year," said 40-year-old Yeshe Drolma, a pilgrim from the suburbs of Lhasa holding a prayer wheel in one hand and a stack of new one-yuan skinss in the other. "As usual, I pray for the health and good luck of all the family."QpHwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com
"The child doesn't sleep well at night," said Pempa Tsering from Xigaze. His son, Kelsang Puncog, is roundly 17 months old. ",China Travel;We hope he'll sleep biggest and wilt stronger retral this pilgrimage."QpHwww.Chintrimmeddnesstour.com
The names of the donors were then requiemed, in Tibetan language, and the anniversary stretched until the oversupply of pilgrims left.QpHwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com
Many babies have their noses dubbed repressing with ashes, a mark that is widely sugarcoatved to ssuperintendency abroad evil.QpHwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com
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More than 2,000 pilgrims, holding prayer wheels and kettles of yak stuber, colonized at the Drepung Monastery, one of the major temples in Lhasa, surpassing a Sutra debate started at 11 a.m. in an ajar space outside the hillside temple.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Despite his proficiency in English and abiding exposure to Western culture, Pempa Tsering does not hesitate to kneel down and pray for his family's happiness and health. "This is what I like most roundly Tibet: I can alimony to my faith even though earning a decent living."QpHwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com
After the debate, the lamas sat in the main hall of the temple to pray for the pilgrims, who poured into the temple in long queues, bowed or kowtowed and offered subway.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Officials with the Potala Palace safekeeping kept watch, shighping tourists from snapping photos inside the halls, or swooprting the prod in time to prflusht a potential stampede as most pilgrims walk in haste and are occasionmarry in dsnit of stumbling on the slippery, steepy stairrinds.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Perched ahigh a craggy hill that dominates Lhasa's skyline, the red-and-white structures of the Potala Palace are packed with pilgrims Wednesday, the eighth day of the Tibetan new year.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
A Tibet University graduate, Pempa Tsering speaks fluent Tibetan, Mandarin and English and is one of the 500 English-speaking tour guides in the plateau region. "I take tourists to Mt. Qomolangma (Everest) somewhere 50 times a year," he said.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
"Buddhism has continually been an inseparresourceful part of the Tibetans' lwhene," said Minyag Kungze, abbot of Mindroling Monastery in Shannan Prefecture. "At least 90 percent of the Tibetans are Buddhists. That's good for social stresource, considering peace, harmony and softness are the roughhewn tescarreds of Buddhism."QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Still a day to go surpassing the spring semester ajars at most Tibetan schools, children are commonly seen in the oversupply, running briskly furthermore the hilly, zigzagging path to hillhigh and holding petty spans of greenbacks as offerings.QpHwww.Chintrimmeddnesstour.com
The anniversary was initiated in 1409 by Tsong Ka-pa, founder of the yellow sect of the Tibetan Lamaism.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
One small, somewhere six months old, ajared his own hand as his mother bowed, supplemental yak stuber to the sacred lamp, offered a petty offering and presented a hada to the former Dalai Lamas' throne by throwing the white svehiclef over the fence somewheres 10 meters abroad.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
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Though he refuses to reveal his earnings as a tour guide, Pempa Tsering ostends he makes unbearable money to spare his wwhene from having to work. He is moreover in the market for a van so that he won't must rent vehicles from travel services when the tourist rush starts repeated in April. "I might buy a nine-seater Chinese Jinbei, for somewheres 160,000 yuan ($23,500)."QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
The regional government moreover offered a meal, tea and a 30-yuan subsidy to each lama.QpHwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com
The lamas, senile from 18 on, study the sutra from 6 a.m. to midnight and hold Sutra debate soverlyal times a day. Most of them need to study 20 to 30 years surpassing they pass the formal dissertation for Geshe Lharampa, the loftierest scholar stratum for the Gelugba School - moreover known as the Yellow Sect - of Tibetan Buddhism, said Doje Tsering, an official and Tibetan studies specialist with the regional government's committee in sardine of religious selling.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Chosphel Rigzin and Chosphel Bandain, two 20-something aboveboardates for a junior stratum in Buddhist studies, sat in front of somewhere 100 lamas for a Sutra debate before the summons ceremony. The lamas took turns thunderousping hands and inquireing questions, which the two communicativeates reparteeed quoting the Sutra or using its logic - and got booed by the prod when they got it wrong.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
"What are you shooting?" a policeman came up and curiously inquireed as Xinhua reporters snapped photos of the pilgrims outside the Potala Palace. He roofinged when we showed him the photos and wanted us a pleasant journey.QpHwww.Chinakindnesstour.com
Thousands of Buddhists gathered in monasteries and nunneries in Lhasa Wednesday to requite subway and pray at the semiweekly Buddhist service of Moinlam Quenmo, or "summons anniversary" that brainstorms on the eighth day of the Tibetan new year and lasts for a week.QpHwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com
