return allegedly troops say. where people. are closer on the march. welcome back this is r.t. and live from moscow and here's a recap of our headlines police fired tear gas and demonstrators in athens as a nation is brought to a standstill by a nationwide strike state services of the carolinas staffers thousands of civil servants walked off their jobs in protest a new social compact it's. russia and china block the u.n. resolution against syria which had european backing moscow says the targeting of damascus is based on a confrontation and not of the. thousands across the u.s.

voiced their anger at corporate money at its influence on the government and its time of soaring unemployment labor unions have joined the chorus of disapproval. and that some visit russia's briatore a region where ancient traditions that shabnam believes are still observed today will do so with us here in our team. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time buddhism here is why the praises of oh people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of saw us. 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 a rare sight. there can ski district is situated in buri at is south west close to the border with moon. 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 a simple tale 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 would knock her out. but most don't because almost to see his brother who

tends a herd of yaks high in the mountains in order to go with one of the water. one of the local utility after he believes the show manic ritual will ward off any dangers joining them on the trip. for sure in this world of 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 energy to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead through the city. at the other end of a short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained the shaman. thanks. the ritual three days

would be shamans would be almost entirely deprived of sleep and food they will go into a state of trance to appeal to the spirits of their ancestors. just so. when nomadic people and therefore the initiations used to be held with the community happened to be at the time but today there's a process of globalization going on where we've set up a religious organization of shamans this is where the initiations are before man. isn't intrapreneur he will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there have 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 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 semantic succession the ability to talk with the spirits hundred down from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirit squad allowed boris to attend a sort of a harm festival of shamans. on the way to the festival a novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people. of the area always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors but here we pray for the orioles and everyone else living here today not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth of. the sort of

a sham festival is held in the phony famous plateau of. last nights 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. what they do look like by thinkers sticking out of the ground what people think the other promised 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 stressed. that evil guinn's keep outside his major buddhist monastery monks roy's early in the milling. so has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. interested in the last year of the monks lead

a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the ministry's one hundred seventy inhabitants for a very strict daily routine. only lunch and prayers interrupts the activities at the buddhist monastery. there is a buddhist university in that that's nearly two hundred monks attend it. and when i think life is very simple there are several monks to a room but you're going to close all the students from the university live in this small building this is my bed with you there and 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 decides to take it up exchanging is shut in turmoil for the crimson robe of a monk. but. 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 the teaching in earnest it is a boundless science. and it's almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you spend a lifetime studying what you know along the border. it's 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.

each of the drums contains 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 a simple method may improve your karma which buddhists believe i think the chances 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 clip because it is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every nook on the shores of the great lake. dogmas in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by coal. it is famous for its

sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same news peninsula. how much of it just kind of from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt are called 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 michael. shannon brasil so right there this time give gainey has organized a tool he will take a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of by karl. the starting point is near the st knows peninsula its land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days through a beard it is one of the most sacred sites rituals were formed 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 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 pogroms 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 berg. when have it is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom the spirits of the wind.

this is a wind swept place. locals used to think that the eagles flying over the valley were in fact the souls of shamans. in the zero kinski district on the other side of. the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. will have a bad month plus as boy he stops and bows to it before pleading to his ancestors to groans him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile musgrave the bullet and his wife the treating yak skin it's. soil so use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses.

this technique is miles of years old locals still prefer who made things. my mother taught me to 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 stakes 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 this night for thirty minutes. then it was turned over because it was my prom 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 pulses to reach post just up in the mountains. there are no roots 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 the so much on the good news going to make a lot of people a very happy 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 his evil guinn ski camps and almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after a husband a shot in the face of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered the temple exited from the back of the head and i mean it was for the doctors told me the injury was fatal could she might die within minutes from what i was nothing my wife and i could do about so i sent my wife to hospital expecting her to bring the body back here which is a letter which will. even have never been

a follower of buddhism but he visited evil doubt sime on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was a voice to pray in front of the un became forty five does she daughter show it to be a body at the buddhist lama. several buddhist lamas gathered or a mountainous plateau named woodland 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 and he should be exempt on that date. will have been you know the seed a sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters a gift for the body of the sheet to show it to gill of it was in a lotus position. it was examined on september eleventh free medical physiologists self and of how would a slave is attend of the ceremony killable along with body showed no signs of decomposition in your story it 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 frist. 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 and i get a chill and i was a moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of air and nails course character they confirmed that those belonged to a living man by the director which unlike here. below this body was brought to evil can keep that sand 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 this so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. i mean you know 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 at the time was this you i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happened and i'm with you but he nodded at me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at you. to my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm not a doctor said it had been a very close shave and she must have been born under a lucky star. news of the miraculous recovery of events spread quickly across and fabiola. pilgrims flock to evil against.

the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to daschle go to show it is restricted to a towards the year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the superfan festival. for the first time boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all good reacts twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. like all shamans morris has gone through the hardships 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 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. is underneath the shamans crown. this thing overshadows designs. because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see humanoids joy can scare them away. at the beginning of the ritual the shaman 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 fire fingered sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stone sculpture pleads with the supreme gods and the father of the eternal blue sky on your behalf asking them to grow in your well being and good luck in all your undertakings. within. the next stop for the cyclist's is a stone. god. large rocks going back to be always sage scattered over a vast area. locals regard the place as something more than just the land will they believe spirits live here. every traveler is supposed to make a symbolic sacrifice a few drops of milk for small change. the cyclists traveling around what he actually is holy places on iraq over the

highlights of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist goddess young shima bethlehem blow and welcome. let us go to the temple come. first of all you need to walk around the temple and true to pray and only then will we go to the stone i don't want to come. this is his second most popular place for pilgrimage and the evil. is regarded as the pinch and saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to is in. many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility suits of will and it's only with one case in point is a woman from a neighboring village she was an atheist 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 and yet but after

she visited young in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old and there is thing work. anyone wishing to ski n.-g. mouth 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 yang she man 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 saying go. now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone some along of all else with a should make your personal please most him seriously rising from 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. up. in the oh kinski district badmouthed on the gulf is apparent 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 and in the compass and the valuable trainers to some fifty kilometers from it they were lost or up to ten or twelve thousand years ago you know a small boat they. would last a long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who last. 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. i 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 meat 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. for the ceremony is accompanied by the constant drumming of tambourines the temporariness the shaman's principle 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. it's believed that at such moments shamans a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. called ok. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought and you have your eyes you see the people around you but you better remember what's gone on the thought i can't explain it and you go into

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

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