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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 rests right. there can ski district is situated in buri at his southwest close to the border with. is one of russia's most spouse the 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 just only commissioned in one thousand nine hundred three however the numerous mountain streams of the flood it making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turned shamans for help. there were now. but most on the gulf coast to see his brother contends a herd of yaks oil in the mountains going to get there were the ones on the order. of one off a little over i think. he believes the sheer manic ritual will ward off any dangerous journey in the long trip. for him in this for them this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers made here. ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power on.

here rituals weekly purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead of the three. at the other end of assured distance from the republic's capital did several men are about to be you would think the shaman. thanks. 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 are performed no

. one. is an entrepreneur you will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there has been several outstanding shaman 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 called shaman sickness which clan is supposed to have a mind of shamanic succession the ability to talk with the spirits it's time to down from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirits who allowed boris to attend the sort of a harem festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the novice shaman explains

what his ancestors religion means to the people what the burials always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint the cousin of a shaman the various worship only their ancestors and we pray for burial since everyone else is living it not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth for. the sort of a sham festival is held in the funny fingers platter of last night's people gathered around a sculpture in the form of the hand pointing to the sky. the monument is believed to have been erected by ancient inhabitants of this land. they do look like five fingers sticking out of the ground. 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 out sam goody as he is a major good just ministry amongst roy's early in the looming. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. to. the last year of the monks lead a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the ministry's one hundred seventy inhabitants follow a very strict daily routine. only lunch and prayers interrupts 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 cuban because all of the students from the university live in this small

building and this is my bed because there are students also live here and i if. 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 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 turmoil for the crimson robe of a monk. this one in one of those i became disenchanted with conventional life the news from that 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 do more 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 what. evil. is considered one of the key spiritual senses 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 the drums as they make several rounds of the. each of the drums contains files of sheets of paper 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 karma which good is believe if the chances of reincarnation. oh 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. bugaboos 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 mount markoff with its 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.

this time of year again he has organized a tool it was a group of young tourists in the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of quite cold. the starting point is near the st louis peninsula this land is covered in tall mountains and fake forests. in the old days through beard 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 body and here. 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 are spirits of the wind. this is a wind swept place. locals used to think of the eagles flying over the valley where in fact the souls of shaman. in the a kinski district on the other side of. the gulf is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad month passes boy he stops and bows to it before pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey.

meanwhile brother and his wife are treating yak skins. soyles used 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 her made 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. it first cones and juniper into the

fire this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color good for the skin to get a good calorie just smoked for thirty minutes. then it was turned over night from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother a hole for 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 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 of the good news going to be made into a lot of the play area look at 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. download the official t.m.p. cation q i phone the i pod touch from the i choose ops to. life on the go. video on demand parties mind bold colors and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the

com. the same mission is. accreditation three sons four charges free. range months free. three stooges free. zone free blanquita cullum videos for your media projects and free media don carty dot com. eventual cause of this is evil 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 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 ten percent my wife the hospital expecting her to bring 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 in force of a woman he knew. there he was advised to pray in front of the un decaying body of dashi daughter show it is a body at buddhist lama. several buddhists lamas gathered over a mountainous clatter 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 exuma on that date. largely been in the cedar sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters a cure for the body of that she does really think ill of it was in a lotus position where it was examined on september eleventh three medical

physiologists myself and totus ladies 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 three brace just it's a trick question. local scientists couldn't work out the law had no decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected like you to check and i was exhausted scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails must course character they confirmed that those belonged to a living man. there which unlike. 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 and i was told also from questions and just communicate with him and he responded with annoyance and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had at the time was this i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happened with which he nodded at 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 and if a doctor said it had been a very close shave she must have been born under

a lucky star you still watch. news of the miraculous recovery of even. spread quickly across and beyond. floor to evil ginsberg that's. 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 eight trying to say 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. 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 orus has gone through the

hardships of the 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. 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. because i want to take this cap for example. is underneath the shamans crown. this thing over sarah says oh it's. because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see humanoids joy can scare them away. 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 finger sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stirred a sculpture pleads with the supreme gods on 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 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 all small change. the cyclists traveling around but he actually is holy places on iraq at the highlight of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist god this young. i thought to blow unwelcome. let us go to the temple come. first of all you need to walk around the temple enter to pray and only then will we go to the stone with him. this is his second most popular place for pilgrimage of the evil. is regarded as the pincian 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. 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 and yet but after she visited 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 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 don't thing go. now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone of the sun

my love of all else with you should make your personal please most sincerely i sing from the bottom of your heart attack 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 way. up. 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 a rock i didn't come to see the valuable trainers and some fifty kilometers from here probably last erupted ten or twelve thousand years ago you know. and.

the last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who lacks. they will spend several weeks together tending the herd. 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 ancestor it's. not intended to a lot i've 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 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 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. tresham. but he adds believe that at such moments shamans a new longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. caught on a stage. which. at first you feel dizzy

then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought when you open your eyes you see the people around you but you better 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 and. their 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 supply to. 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. if

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