View of Pentophanaro (5 Lamps) in Place Theotoki at dusk, Corfu Town, Corfu, Ionian Sea, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

View of Pentophanaro (Five Lamps) in Place Theotoki, Corfu Town, Corfu, Ionian Sea, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

View of Pentophanaro (Five Lamps) in Place Theotoki, Corfu Town, Corfu, Ionian Sea, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

View of Pentophanaro (5 Lamps) in Place Theotoki at dusk, Corfu Town, Corfu, Ionian Sea, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Monks offer butter lamps. Bodgaya, india. Monks offer butter lamps in front of mahabodhi temple marks site of buddha’s enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked

Monks offer butter lamps. Kalachakra initiation, bodhgaya. India. Monks attending kalachakra initiation at mahaboudhi temple in bodhgaya, india. mahabodhi temple marks site of buddhas enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked

Monks offer butter lamps. Bodgaya, india. Monks offer butter lamps in front of mahabodhi temple marks site of buddhas enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked

Monks offer butter lamps prayer, kalachakra initiation, bodhgaya. India. Monks attending kalachakra initiation at mahaboudhi temple in bodhgaya, india. mahabodhi temple marks site of buddha’s enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked

Monk filling the butter lamps in readiness for the birthday celebrations of Wenshu, Shuxiang Temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China

Monk filling the butter lamps in readiness for the birthday celebrations of Wenshu, Shuxiang temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China

Girl with a lantern at a St. Martin's parade, lantern procession, St. Martin's Day, Pfaffenwinkel, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Girl with a lantern at a St. Martin's parade, lantern procession, St. Martin's Day, Pfaffenwinkel, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Old five-armed cast-iron decorative lantern against blue sky, Rhena, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe