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A solitary nun circumambulates Mount Kailas, revered by Tibetans as the axis of the world. The ancient practice of parikrama, or kora, is less one of defining a perimeter than one of dissolving all sense of boundary. Connecting to the holy site through intimate circumambulations, kora draws one ever inward toward a sacred center. While Buddhists circumambulate clockwise, followers of Bon-Tibet’s indigenous religious tradition-circle counterclockwise. When asked why, a Bonpo pilgrim replied, “I’m not following the Buddha, I’m going to meet him.” Mount Kailas, Western Tibet.
A sacred landscape in front of the south face of Mount Kailas. Gang Tise’s distinctive gash, known to the Bonpo as “the thirteen staircase ladder to heaven” , greets the few pilgrims who enters the inner secturm of the Mount Kailas for the more ardurous inner kora, or circuit, to the golden stupa residing at the heart of the mountain.A sacred landscape in front of the south face of Mount Kailas. Mount Kailas, Western Tibet. Gang Tise’s distinctive gash, known to the Bonpo as “the thirteen staircase ladder to heaven” , greets the few pilgrims who enters the inner secturm of the Mount Kailas for the more ardurous inner kora, or circuit, to the golden stupa residing at the heart of the mountain.
A solitary nun circumambulates Mount Kailas, revered by Tibetans as the axis of the world. The ancient practice of parikrama, or kora, is less one of defining a perimeter than one of dissolving all sense of boundary. Connecting to the holy site through intimate circumambulations, kora draws one ever inward toward a sacred center. While Buddhists circumambulate clockwise, followers of Bon-Tibet’s indigenous religious tradition-circle counterclockwise. When asked why, a Bonpo pilgrim replied, “I’m not following the Buddha, I’m going to meet him.”
Mount Kailas, Western Tibet.
A solitary nun circumambulates Mount Kailas, revered by Tibetans as the axis of the world. The ancient practice of parikrama, or kora, is less one of defining a perimeter than one of dissolving all sense of boundary. Connecting to the holy site through intimate circumambulations, kora draws one ever inward toward a sacred center. While Buddhists circumambulate clockwise, followers of Bon-Tibet’s indigenous religious tradition-circle counterclockwise. When asked why, a Bonpo pilgrim replied, “I’m not following the Buddha, I’m going to meet him.” Mount Kailas, Western Tibet.
A solitary nun circumambulates Mount Kailas, revered by Tibetans as the axis of the world. The ancient practice of parikrama, or kora, is less one of defining a perimeter than one of dissolving all sense of boundary. Connecting to the holy site through intimate circumambulations, kora draws one ever inward toward a sacred center. While Buddhists circumambulate clockwise, followers of Bon-Tibet’s indigenous religious tradition-circle counterclockwise. When asked why, a Bonpo pilgrim replied, “I’m not following the Buddha, I’m going to meet him.”
Mount Kailas, Western Tibet.
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