witnessing the sewage infrastructure construction of the region special economic zone promise is exceptional for cheese debility business in russia will come to the small region for more information log on to invest in some are of the value. now five thirty pm here in moscow you would get the headlines police fired tear gas the demonstrators in athens as the nation is brought to a standstill by a nationwide strike state services have been paralyzed after thousands of civil servants walked off their jobs in protest at new social cutbacks in. russia and china block a u.n. resolution against syria which would have european backing moscow says the targeting of damascus is based on confrontation and not a push. thousands across the u.s.

the voice their anger at corporate money and its influence on the government the time of soaring unemployment labor unions have now joined the chorus of disapproval . if you stay with us if you cannot see it coming up next i was special report from russia's a region that's where ancient traditions and sharman beliefs are still today. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time buddhism here is widely practiced of oh people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of science. this is a land where trying seems to have come to a standstill. twenty

six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and the forests. humans are recite. their kinski district is situated in buri actually is south west close to the border with mongolia. is one of russia's most honestly populated areas . only five thousand people live in a valley overshadowed by the cyan mountains. most of them soil their pneumatic ancestors simple take hundreds of years ago. there is just one road that leads to the far away region which is only commissioned in one nine hundred ninety three however numerous mountain streams of them flood it making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turns shamans for help. there were now.

but most on the coast owns to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks troy in the mountains are going to get a little one of the order. of a little boy. he believes the shamanic ritual will ward off any dangerous journey in the long trip. in this with them this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here to be with you ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power on. here rituals quickly purified people water absorbs bad indeed to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead of the city. as the other end of a short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained

a shaman. thank. the ritual three days would be shamans almost entirely deprived of sleep and food they will go into a state of trance to appeal to the spirits of their ancestors. were nomadic people and therefore the initiations used to be held where the community happened to be at the time but today there is a process of globalisation going on where we've set up a religious organization of shamans this is where the initiations of before. that. is an entrepreneur he will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there's been several i was standing shamans among his ancestors so he has no other choice but to become one himself. after the

ritual he will be a healer and a voice and a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from disease can be shamans it's called shaman sickness which clan is supposed to have a mind of semantic succession the ability to talk with the spirits there's a hundred down from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirits have allowed boris to attend the sort of a hermit festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people. of the area always trusted their ancestors each planet a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors can we pray for burials of everyone else living here not just for ourselves and our prayers we all feel good fortune and wealth through. the sort of

a sham festival is held in the funny fingers plateau of. people gathered around a sculpture in the form of the fans pointing to the sky. the monument is believed to have been erected by ancient inhabitants of this land. they do look like by thinkers sticking out of the ground with the other promise located somewhere in mongolia and early summer shamans began their rituals with a plea for people's well being i come here for the sake of my family. and the evil guinn's keep outside his major buddhist monastery months roy's early in the moonie. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am.

just in the last year of the month leader reclusive life and barely venture outside. the ministry's one hundred seventy inhabitants for a very strict daily routine. only lunch and prayers interrupt the activities at the buddhist monastery. there is a buddhist university in that that nearly two hundred monks attend it. when a stick life is very simple there are several monks to a room like you going to students from the university live in this small building this is my bed but you heard your students also live here and i of course. there was also room for the teacher. i mean i found it difficult to adapt to the monasteries austere way of life but you get used to it with the passage of time the routine becomes part of your life and. that.

differs from his fellow students in many ways most monks begin practicing buddhism from a young age. so it was well into his thirty's before he decided to take it up exchanging his show. for the crimson robe of a monk. in one of those i became disenchanted with conventional life while the nation and i realized that it would get me nowhere. that is when i decided to take the spiritual path. for the layman buddhism is just a religion would you want to thank god for people who want to move forward and study of teaching in earnest it is a boundless science. it is almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you spend a lifetime studying you know a long pole with. evil against you that's considered one of the key spiritual senses of contemporary buddhism in russia. hundreds of go grooms come here every day. to begin with they go through

a special ritual they need to spin buddhist drums as they make several rounds of the. each of the drums contains sheets of paper with press inscribed on them it is believed if you spin a drum once you have to read all the prayers in it this simple method may improve your karma. believe a fiction says of reincarnation. oh i call the world's deepest lake a local tribes worshiped it long before the arrival of russian colonists. you have guinea cliff because it is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every newcomer shores of the great lake. who is in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by cole. it is famous for its

sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same news peninsula. how that's going to tell from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt are called for that snowy top. the snow is still there even though it is the month of june now. the beach is about thirty kilometers long. it's the longest beach on michael shannon so right here live this time you have guinea has organized a tool it will take a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sites in the vicinity of quite cold. the starting point is near the same nose peninsula this land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days three of it is one of the most sacred sites rituals were formed on the

peninsula and the most respected shamans were buried here. this place is charged with enormous energy. people strength throughout the journey. such excursions are becoming increasingly popular tourist like to choose routes that pass through the so-called places of spiritual energy many of them can be found in. another point of interest is in the valley of prague was in river the area is often called the suv in ski stone council because of its resemblance to the gothic architecture of medieval europe. one theory suggests that the mountains with the last outpost of the bergen mongols will have it is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom the spirits of the women and.

this is a wind swept place. locals used to think that the eagles flying over the valley were in fact the souls of shaman. in the old kinski district on the other side of. the cove is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad mum pulses by he stops some bones to it before pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile but must grow the lot and his wife treating yaks in its. soil so use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses.

this technique is piles of years old locals still prefer who made thing. not my mother taught me the skill. that's how my parents always did it for a hundred things or better quality. as soon as they stretched the skin and suspend it from steaks they make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. they put fur cones and juniper into the fire. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. for the skin to get a good calorie it is smoked for thirty minutes. then it has turned up in smoke from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother the whole

three year. like that ancestors so it spend most of their lives in temporary camps in winter they go downhill to be closer to the rivers. in summer they use the pulses to reach post just up in the mountains. there are no roads here. to get here his elder brother will have to cross several fast flowing mountain streams. all six local spirits for hope and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. cultures that say much on the baby is going to make a lot of people a variant but the days of rage is the global economy on the brink of a double dip recession if so why can't the rich west find the right mix of fiscal

and. feast for. a few. feast. eventual cause of business give that some almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after husbands shot her in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullets then to the temple exited from the back of her head and i mean a lot of doctors told me the injury was fatal country might die within minutes from what i was nothing my wife and i could do about so i sent my wife to hospital expecting that's bringing the body back here which is

a lot of it. even had never been a follower of good ism but he visited evil again skipped out sign on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was a voice to pray in front of the under came forty of dashi daughter show if you keel over a goody at buddhist lama. several buddhist lamas gathered around mountainous plateau on a day in september two thousand and two. they were looking for the resting place of eighty kilos because seventy five years ago he himself requested that he should be exuma on that date. logwood been in the sea to sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters a gift with the body of that she does really think it was in a lotus position or it was examined on september eleventh three medical physiologists myself and a top loader slater's attended the ceremony killable along his body showed no signs

of decomposition in your store it was a sense that he had just fallen asleep for sure. besides his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six to grace just purchased the surest. local scientists couldn't work out why the law had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis the findings of that investigation were unexpected likely to check and there was a gasket scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails course curator they confirmed that both belonged to the living man and the rapture which unlike the. body was brought to evoke in ski depth and in a transparent sarcophagus. this unique footage was filmed a year later. after that journalists were not allowed to take pictures of the un decaying body. even chilcote only spent about half an hour face

to face with this so-called comparison lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. i really i was there when the loan was brought into the temple and i was told also can questions and just communicate with him he responded with a nod and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had of the time was this if i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens with the knowledge of me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at you every day my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm not the doctor said it had been a very close shave she must have been born under a lucky star you still. news of the miraculous recovery of events spread quickly across and beyond. the evil.

the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited. access to dashboard. is restricted to eight times a year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the festival for the first time is going to pray together with revered shamans. twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grow them good luck and wealth. like all shamans has gone through the whole chips of the shamans life he suffered from disease he found no place for himself either in society or in his inner self

when he found out that powerful shamans had been in his clan he turned to the teacher and that's when his spiritual and human elements merged into harmony. every shaman must wear a special ritual robe each element of it is charged with particular symbolism. otherwise you take this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown. this thing overshadows designs. like this because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see human eyes joy they can scare them away. at the beginning of the ritual the shamans summon the local spirits to offer them gifts sweets and vodka the ritual has remained unchanged over scores of generations similar sounds reverberated over the five fingers plateau thousand years ago.

as you can see the fire fingered sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stern sculpture pleads with the supreme gods and the father of the eternal blue sky on your behalf asking them to grow on you well being and good luck in all your undertakings. within you and. the next stop for the cyclist's is a stone garden. large rocks going back to the ice age scattered over a vast area. locals regard the place a something more than just the land. they believe spirits live here. every traveler is supposed to make a symbolic sacrifice a few drops of milk all small change.

the cyclists travelling around but he actually has the place is funny arrived at the highlights of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist goddess. glow and welcome. let us go to the temple. first of all you need to walk around the temple enter it to pray and only then will we go to the stone again with . this is pretty empty is second most popular place for pilgrimage of the evil that. is regarded as the patron saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered god says. many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility. was one case in point is a woman from a neighboring village she was an atheist i think if they had asked her three years ago if she had faith in any religion including buddhism she would have said no the

problem was that she was already forty and had no success in getting pregnant like i knew but after she visited young in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old and their thing work. anyone wishing to. help must take a narrow path up hill. legend has it that the republic's current chief buddhist was meditating when the goddess yang shima appeared before him. she told him to look for her image in this valley. several months later monks discovered a stone bearing the image of a dog same girl. now it is time for the travelers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone somewhere well above all else with a should make your personal please most him serially icing on the bottom of your

heart and now you do it either on your knees lying on the ground or standing makes no difference as long as you have faith in her way. in the o. kinski district badmouthed on the cough as a parent to complete his journey but one last obstacle is in his way. remains of an ancient love a plane from two extinct volcano whose stretch for seventy kilometers of scorched earth under a rock i didn't come pursued the valley of volcano some fifty kilometers from here they lost or up to ten or twelve thousand years ago you want some thought and. the last a long trip comes to an end but mom meets his younger brother who lives. they will

spend several weeks together tending the hurt. the soil it's hoped that this valley tucked away in the mountains will allow them to maintain the way of life handed down from that ancestors. are not intended to a lot of the lives they since i was a child that was the point of moving elsewhere i came back from my stint in the army and are intending yaks since. just like my father and grandfather did my family sells mates and milk for a living and quite enough sometimes i go hunting i don't think i need anything more . when the sun reaches its zenith twenty shamans begin praying together by the five thing good stone sculpture. to start with they also local spirits to

accept their prayers and gifts. the ceremony is accompanied by the constant drumming of tambourines the temporariness the shaman's principal instrument that allows him to move between the human world and the spirit world. the critical moment arrives when the shamans take turns in going into a state of trunks. trashcan. yes believe at such moments shaman's a no longer themselves their voting is have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. shoulder there's a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you vision is blood and you become lost in thought when you with your eyes you see the people around you but you better remember what's gone on before i can't explain it

to you when you go into a state of trance you ask your ancestors to use you as a medium to talk to others. the ritual culminates in a symbolic sacrifice to the sky. young trees are tossed into a bone fide to make smoke. when the fire goes out and evil appears over the five fingers platter. the sacrifice has been accepted and their presence he did. the next year will be a good one for the land where time has come to a standstill. home

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