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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world
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has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time buddhism here is widely praised just oh people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of science. is a land where trying seems to have come to a standstill. twenty six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and virgin forests. humans
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are a rare sight. there kinski district is situated in gori at his southwest close to the border with mexico. is one of russia's most owsley populated areas. only five thousand people live in the valley overshadowed by the cyan mountains. most of them soil their pneumatic ancestors simple to 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 flooded making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turned shamans for help. they were not.
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but most don't because once to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks troy in the mountains are going to go with the one of the world. over the last of it although i think. he believes the sheer manic ritual will ward off any dangers joining them on the trip. first in the field of this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here. ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power on. here rituals quickly purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead for the city. at 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
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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 an old where the community happens 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 of reform now. is an entrepreneur he will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there have 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 and a voice and a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from
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disease can be shamans told shaman sickness clan is supposed to have a mind of shamanic succession the ability to talk with the spirits is hundred 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 novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the periods always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint person of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors here we pray for burials and everyone else living it's not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth of. the third beacham festival is held in the
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funny fingers plateau of last night's people gathered around a sculpture in the form of a parent 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. 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. and the evil guinn's keep outside is a major good just ministry months roy's early in the new me. so throw has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. to. the year of the month leader reclusive life and barely venture outside.
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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 a stick life is very simple there are several monks to a room but you don't because all students from the university live in this small building this is my bed if you third your students those who live here do that and . there was also 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 and the routine becomes part of your life and. so code differs from his fellow students in many ways most monks begin practicing
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buddhism from a young age. so it was well into his thirty's before we decided to take it up exchanges show turmoil for the crimson robe of a monk. because when the money and i became disenchanted with conventional life 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 and ernest it is a bound list science. it is almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you spend a lifetime studying what you know what. evil. is considered one of the keys 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 drums as they make several rounds of the day.
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each of the drums contains files of sheets of paper prayers inscribed. it is believed if you spin a drum once you have to read all the prayers in it the simple method may improve your karma. believe i think the chances of reincarnation. but i called 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. but was in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by co. it is famous for its
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sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same nervous peninsula. about to just 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 by cal. so right here live this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of by co. a starting point is near the st louis peninsula as land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days would be at revered 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
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charged with enormous energy. people strength throughout the journey. such excursions are becoming increasingly popular tourist learn 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 same vince keystone council because of its resemblance to the gothic architecture of medieval europe. one theory suggests that the mountains were the last outpost of the berga mongols will have it 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
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were and fact the souls of shamans. in the o. kinski district on the other side of. budmouth on the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad mother pulses boy he stops some bones to it before pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile must brother and his wife the treating yak skins. soils use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses.
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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 for her made things are better quality as soon as they stretch the skin and suspend it from steaks and make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. and put fur cones in juniper into the fire. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. good for the skin to get a good calorie it is smoked for thirty minutes. that is turned on the christians not from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother the hole for year. like that ancestors so it spend most of their lives in temporary camps
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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 help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. culture is that so much could be going to create a lot of people here 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
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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 husband shot her in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered her temple exited from the back of her head and i mean all but for the doctors told me the injury was fatal country might die within minutes from what i there's nothing my wife and i could do about it i sent my wife to hospital expecting that's bringing
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the body back here which is a lot of it. even had never been a follower of judaism but he visited evil guinn's keep that sign on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was a voice to pray in front of the un decaying body of dashi daughter show it to heal a body at the buddhist lama. several bullets lomas gathered over a mountainous plateau ne 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. will be new to the cedar sarcophagus was it a depth of one point two meters a cure for the body of does she totally to gilels it was in a lotus position or it was examined on september eleventh for a medical physiologists myself and told wouldst ladies attended the ceremony
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killable the lamas body showed no signs of decomposition in your story it was a sense that he had just fallen asleep sure. besides his body was warm and temperature was thirty six point six degrees just prior to the tryst the surest. local scientists couldn't work out why they had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected likely to check and scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails most course to which are they confirmed that does belong to a living man rupture which unlike your. body was brought to evil pinsky 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
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became body. eventually called only spent about half an hour face to face with this so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. really i was there when the law was brought into the temple and i was told also can questions and just communicate with them he responded with an old and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had at the time was this i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens and i'm with which he nodded at me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at you and i mean my daughter suddenly came out of the coma when i was here pushed it with the what was it one pm not the doctor said it had been a very close shave she must have been born under a lucky star. news of the miraculous recovery of eva two or to spread quickly across and beyond. graham's flock to evil in
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that sound. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to dash. 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 boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. like all shamans horace's gone through the hardships of the shamans life he suffered from disease he found no place for himself either in society or in his
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inner self when he found out the 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. rather want to take this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown. this thing overshadows designs. because the spirits descending from above the not supposed to see human eyes joy 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
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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 stirred the 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 is a stone god and. large rocks going back to the voice age 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
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cyclists travelling around but he actually is holy places when you arrive at the highlights of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist god this young. glow and welcome. let us go to the temple. first of all you need to walk around the temple and true to pray and only then will we go to the stone for them come. this is his second most popular place for pilgrimage of the evil that. young she is regarded as the pincian saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to says in. 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
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problem was that she was already forty and had no success in getting pregnant but after she visited young in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old and the earth can go. anyone wishing to n.g. mouth to help must take a narrow path up hill. legend has it that the republic's current chief buddhist was meditating when the goddess yes 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's ingo. now it is time for the travelers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone with some a love of all else with a should make your personal please most sincerely my singing from the bottom of
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your heart and how you do it either on your knees lying on the ground or standing makes no difference as long as you have faith in her. work. in the o. kinski district badmouthed on the cough is about to complete his journey but one last obstacle is in his way. remains of an ancient love a plane from two extinct volcanoes stretch for seventy kilometers of scorched earth under all i didn't come pursued the valley of volcano some fifty kilometers from where they were they lost or up to ten or twelve thousand years ago due north. and . at last the long trip comes to
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an end and. meets his younger brother who lacks. they will spend several weeks together tending the herd. the soil let's hope that this valley tucked away in the mountains will allow them to maintain the way of life handed down from their ancestors. to a lot of the 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 yaks since. just like my father and grandfather did my family sells meat and milk for a living and me 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
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accept their prayers and gifts. 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. it's believe that at such moments shamans a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. or are theirs. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision his blood and you become lost in thought horse and you have your eyes you see the people around you but you better
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remember what's gone on before 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. 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 biggest 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. you
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know our sometimes you see a story and a scene so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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