The beautiful cove of Sa Tuna, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Crystal clear water in Sa Calobra, Tramuntana mountains, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Sa Tuna, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Sa-Paru Gaijatra Festival, Durbar Square, Bhaktapur, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bagmati, Central Region, Nepal, Asia

View of Sa Plav?a - Mercat de proximitat de Mav=, food market, Mahv=n (Mao), Memorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Excursion boat at Far de sa Creu lighthouse at harbour entrance, Port de Soller, Majorca (Mallorca), Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Sa Tuna, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

View of Sa Plav?a - Mercat de proximitat de Mav=, food market, Mahv=n (Mao), Memorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

View of Sa Plav?a - Mercat de proximitat de Mav=, food market, Mahv=n (Mao), Memorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

The rugged coast near Sa Tuna, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Aerial of the Gorge of Sa Calobra, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Aerial of the Gorge of Sa Calobra, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

The Gorge of Sa Calobra, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Aerial of the Gorge of Sa Calobra, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Elephant show for tourist, Mae Sa, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Wai'oli Hui'ia Church in Hanalai on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Pohyon-sa, a Korean Buddhist temple located in Hyangsan county in North Pyongan Province, Myohyang Mountains area, North Korea, Asia

Small child stroking a statue during the Buddha's Birthday at Chogye Sa, near Seoul, South Korea, Asia

Sitting room, White Palace, the last Shah's Summer Palace, Sa'ad Abad, Tehran, Iran, Middle East

Dining room, White Palace, the last Shah's Summer Palace, Sa'ad Abad, Tehran, Iran, Middle East

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands,Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Wai'oli Hui'ia Church in Hanalai on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific

Pohyon-sa, a Korean Buddhist temple located in Hyangsan county in North Pyongan Province, Myohyang Mountains area, North Korea, Asia

Married identical twins, White Palace, the last Shah's Summer Palace, Sa'ad Abad, Tehran, Iran, Middle East

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Painting on a door of a temple at Haein-Sa, Korea, Asia

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Sa Punta beach, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Sa Tuna, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America, North America

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands,Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

View of Downtown from State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America, North America

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Oia (Ia), island of Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Aegean, 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

Humla, shamans. shamans central to ceremonial life, with their spirit possession high point of every collective ritual. Their white wool tufted turnans match description of zhangzhung’s priests

Couple enjoys Caldeira, Ia, Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

French Polynesia, Windward Islands, Tahiti, Ea Haere Ia Oe Painting By Paul Gauguin In 1895 Now In Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600

Nepal. Ritual, sonam/boom. Lobsangs cremation. Humla. traveler reached of journey! In freedom of infinite he is free from sorrow, fetters that bound thrown away, burning fever of life is no more,oesays dharmapada. Lobsang having spent whole life preparing moment of death, finds liberation on february 14, 1986. Extensive ritual follows cremation-traditionally a forty nine period, sonam lama rattles damaru. A small ritual drum to have origin in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bone dreid human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. Boom lama blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers. On makeshift altar rest chhome, votive lamps filled with butter, cups of water, grains, tormas, holy food made of barley meal decorated with medallions of butter offered to gods. Alone, boom lama continues prayers of deceased

Trulshig rinpoche, blesses. Tulshig rinpoche blesses. Tulshig rimpoche s followers believe that he, like many other lamas, reassumes a human body after death in order to return to disciples. previous incarnation of tulshig rimpoche spent several years at dzarongpu monastery (highest monastery in world located at 16,500’ within sight of northern side of mt everest) served as of ngawong tenzin teachers. He promised to return in next life, so at tulshig s death ngawong tenzin norbu sought found reincarnation. current tulshig rimpoche then came to monastery studied with ngawong tenzin norbu. relationship between teacher student, in which a teacher returns to study from former student, maintains lineage over generations. Bhutan

Reflection. Tibetan peoples home, rajpur, india. India. I remember this body when it a childs as it gradually took form of a youth. very limb is twisted worn. It is my body, it delights even my eyes.,seventh dalai lama, meditations on ways of impermanence. tradition regards meditation on death impermanence only as a useful technique keeping mind intensely focused. It also sees it as a method unlocking deepest secrets of life

Xavante race. race is really a race at, it’s a ceremony, an aesthetic event. Xavante nonplused by notions of winning losing. logs carried by team, representing oppositions that xavante believe go to make up universe. running of logs expresses dynamic tension between opposing principles. purpose of ceremonies to stress that these antithesis need tear world apart. Opposing be controlled to complement each other create equilibrium harmony. Brazil

These reindeer peoples' entire existence is based around their herds of reindeer, which provide milk, skins for clothes, horn for carving and medicine, transport and occasionally, meat. the tsaatan are part of the tuvan ethnic group, which inhabits the tuvan republic of russia. there are only about 200 tsaatan in total, spread over 100,000 sq km of northern mongolia. they are nomadic, often moving their small encampments every three to four weeks, searching for special types of grass and moss loved by the reindeer. the tsaatan are strong practitioners of shamanism. west taiga, northern mongolia

At tnorbutse,monks at triten norbutse vigorously debate philosophy, melting away incorrect views like butter in. Bonpo monks debate at triten norbutse monastery. Nepal

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. 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

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village Small Path, White Painted Houses And Chapel Domes On Left, Man Returning With Bread

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

Budhist lamas in prayer, 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

Bonpo conch shell, t. Norbutse. young monks, wearing ceremonial hats, blow on conch shells to call monks to prayer. yellow cylindrical object behind them is a victory banner, symbolizing monasteries defeat of negativity evil intention on premises

Elephant painting with its trunk, Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Nomad birth. Today i born into family of buddhas; a child of buddhas i’ve become today. -santideva. Tibet

Elephant painting with its trunk, Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, Entrance Of A Private House, Dome Chapel At Back

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Man Knocking A Green Door At A House In Ia Village Overlooking The Sea

Santorini, Ia, Restaurant, Greece

Reflections, child care center, dharamsalla, india. Achieving a human rebirth is as rare precious as finding a wishfulfilling .,seventh dalai lama, meditations on ways of impermanenc

Santorini, Ia, Cupolos Angeles, Greece

Tourist feeding elephant, Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Ia, Santorini (Thira), Cyclades Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, View Of Chapels At Dusk,

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, View On The Sea In Side The Caldera In Ia Village At Dusk

Sa Tuna, near Begur, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, White Chapel Belfry Overlooking On The Caldera

Santorini, Ia, Belfries & Linen, Greece

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, Dome And Belfry At Sunset

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, In The Former Volcanic Caldera Cruise Boat Anchored, The White Ia Village On To P Of Hill Behind

Tourists feeding elephants, Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Overview On Ia Village Most Famous Chapel And The Sea

Santorini, Ia Village, Greece

Santorini, Ia, Overview, Greece

Santorini, Ia, Flowers, Greece

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, Blue Chapel Dome And Belfry

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, Silhouette Of A Man On The Stairs, Chapel Blue Dome At Rear

Santorini, Ia, Micro-Cafe, Greece

Greece, Cyclades, Santorini Island, Ia Village, Three Blue Painted Domes On A Plain Chapel

Santorini, Ia, Greece