ancient traditions and sharman beliefs are still observed 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 the people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of science. this is a land where time seems to have come to a standstill. twenty six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and virgin forests. humans are recite. their can ski district is situated in gori attias southwest

close to the border with. is one of russia's most honestly populated areas. only five thousand people live in the valley overshadowed by the cyan mountains. most of them a soil the pneumatic ancestors settled here 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 turned to shamans for help. they were not . but most don't because once to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks in the mountains going to get your little ones on the road. want to know that although. he believes

a shamanic ritual will ward off any dangers during the long trip. put in this for them this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here to you ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power . here rituals quickly purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead through the city. at the other end of the short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained to shamans. 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. isn't intrapreneur he will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. for his knows there has been several outstanding shamans among his ancestors so he has no other choice but to become one himself. after the ritual he will be a healer an advisor and a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from disease can be shamans called shaman sickness which clan is supposed to have a mind of shamanic succession the ability to talk with the spirits is handed down

from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirits have allowed boris to attend a sort of a hermit festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the novus shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the burials are always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors here we pray for burials and everyone else living here not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth through. the sort of a sham festival is held in the funny fingers plateau. last night people gathered around a sculpture in the form of a hand pointing to the sky. the monument is believed to have been erected by

ancient inhabitants of this land. is what they do look like five fingers sticking out of the ground but when people see the other palm is 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's prosperity. and the evil good ski doubts. he has major buddhist monastery monks roys early in the mooney. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. of the year of the monks lead a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the monasteries 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. life is very simple there are several monks to a room but cuba macos all students from the university live in this small building and wacko and this is my bed but you there and your students also live here and i of course. there was also a room for the teacher. and 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 a lot of normal. 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 is shutting turmoil for the crimson robe of

a monk. but. i became disenchanted with conventional life of the nation and i realized that it would get me nowhere by us that is when i decided to take the spiritual path. for the layman buddhism is just a religion would you want to think but for people who want to move forward and study the teaching in earnest it is a boundless science. it is almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you spend a lifetime studying what you know along the border. is considered one of the key spiritual centers of contemporary buddhism in russia. hundreds of pilgrims 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 files of sheets of paper with prayers 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 comma. which buddhists believe i think the chances of reincarnation. what i call the world's deepest lake local tribes worshiped it long before the arrival of russian colonists. guinea clip because it is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every nook on the shores of the great lake. in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by call. it is famous for its sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same news peninsula. how much of it just from here you get

a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt markov with it 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 by cal. so regularly this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say who group of young tourists to the most sacred the mystical sites in the vicinity of by called. the starting point is near the same nose peninsula this land is covered in tool mountains and thick forests. in the old days but he adds revered it is one of the most sacred sites rituals were performed on the peninsula and the most respected shamans were buried here in this place is charged with enormous energy. people strength throughout the journey.

such excursions becoming increasingly popular tourist learning to choose routes that. through the so-called places of spiritual energy many of them can be found in . another point of interest is in the valley of bugaboos 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 were the last outpost of the bug and mongols when have is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom to spirits of the wind. yes 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 o. kinski district on the other side of bloody attia but mudd on the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place when the bad mom passes by he stops and bounce to it before pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile brother and his wife are treating yak skin it's. soil so used them to make clothing footwear and harnesses. this technique is thousands of years old. locals still prefer who made things.

my mother taught me the skill. that's how my parents always did it. homemade things are better quality. as soon as they stretch the skin and suspend it from steaks they make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. they put fur cones and juniper into the fall. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. for the skin to get a good coloring it is smoked for thirty minutes. then it is turned over to the smoke from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother for whuffie 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 passes to reach pastas 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 help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. cultures that so much on me are going to be made into a lot of people a year yeah 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. fixed for. a few. first.

eventual cause of this is evil get that same almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after a husband a shot in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered her temple exited from the back of her head and i mean a lot of doctors told me the injury was fatal and that she might die within minutes from what it was nothing my wife and i could do about it i sent my wife to hospital expecting that bring the body back it up which is a lot of it. even had never been a follower of buddhism but he visited evil get out sign on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was advised to pray in front of the un decaying body of

dashi daughter show it to get a body at buddhist lama. several buddhist lamas gather on a mountainous plateau named land wood 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 exempt on that date. largo have been in the cedar sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters year for the body of the she does relate to it was in a lotus position. it was examined on september eleventh three medical physiologists myself and told the oldest ladies attended the ceremony killable a lot of his body showed no signs of decomposition there was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. besides his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six degrees just there to trista surest. local scientists couldn't work out why the llama had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow

for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected i get a check of the moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails must course clear which are they confirmed that both belonged to a living man but. body was brought to evil. 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. eventual cough only spent about half an hour face to face with the so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. really i was there when the loan was brought into the temple i was

told to ask him questions and just communicate with him he responded with a nod and facial expression. a nagging thought i had at the time was this i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happened and i'm with him when he nodded to me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at. my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm my the doctor said it had been a very close shave and she must have been born under a lucky stone the. news of the miraculous recovery of evens daughter spread quickly across and beyond. graham's flocked to evil genes keep that sound. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to dashi daughter show it is restricted to eight

times a year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holidays. all the participants have gathered for the saw by sean festival. for the first time boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all body at's twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. what is god. like all shamans orus has gone through the hardships of a shaman's 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 a 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.

take this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown this thing overshadows designs why is that because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see human eyes can scare them away. at the beginning of the ritual the shamans summon 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 a thousand years ago. as you can see the five fingered sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stirred 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. the next stop for the cyclist's is a stone. garden. large rocks going back to the ice age a scattered over a vast area. locals regard the place as 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 traveling around body attias holy places funny arrive at the highlight of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist goddess. below and welcome let us go to the temple. first of all you need to walk around the

temple and to to pray and only then will we go to the stone i don't want to come. this is second most popular place for pilgrimage to the evil. is regarded as the pincian saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to says in beauty as. many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility. there was one case in point is a woman from a neighboring village she was an atheist i said 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 again yet but after she visited young in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old. anyone wishing to. help must take

a narrow path up the hill. legend has it that the republic's current chief buddhist was meditating when the goddess yeah 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 dancing go. now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone along with some along of all else with you should make your personal please most sincerely i sing from the bottom of your heart and i know you do it either on your knees lying on the ground or standing thing makes no difference as long as you have faith in her. way.

up in the o. kinski district on the cough is about to complete his journey but one last obstacle is in his way. the remains of an ancient love a plane from two extinct volcanoes stretch for seventy kilometers of scorched earth under all but in the coming pursued the valley of volcano some of fifty kilometers from the last erupted ten or twelve thousand years ago you lost sleep thought it. would last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who lat. they will spend several weeks together tending the hood. 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 their ancestors.

have lived here since i was a child that was the point of moving elsewhere i came back from my stint in the army and have been tending yak 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 fingered 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. cash. but he adds believe that at such moments shamans a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. but i know there's a. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought horse when you open your eyes you see the people around you but you barely remember what's gone on before i can't explain it when you go into a state of trance you ask your ancestors to use you as a medium to talk to others. in. 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 eagle appears over the five fingers platter. the sacrifice has been accepted and their prez he did. the next year will be a good one for the land where time has come to a standstill. well

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