demonstrators. gauged in the fighting with government troops. visit russia's. region where ancient traditions and 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 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 rare sight. there can ski district is situated in gori at his southwest close to the border with. 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 a soil their 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 nine hundred ninety three however numerous mountain streams of them flood it making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turn to shamans for help. but most don't because wants to see his brother who tends

a herd of yaks in the mountains are going to go with the one of the old. one off that although. he believes the shamanic ritual will ward off any dangers during the long trip. put in this for them this is the right place the rituals as you can see three rivers meet here. ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power. 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 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. when 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. is an intrapreneur he will be among the initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories 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. 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 the sort of by herman festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the nova shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the burials always trusted their ancestors each clan at a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors here we pray for burials and everyone else living yesterday not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth through. the sort of a ham festival is held in the funny fingers platter of 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. with what they do look like five fingers sticking out of the ground but when people see the other palm is located somewhere in mongolia in 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 evil going ski down. as major buddhist monastery monks roy's early in the mooney. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. 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 cuban because all of the students from the university live in this small building and wacko and this is my bed with you there and your students also live here and i if. there was also a 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 along with 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 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 what it is when i decided to take the spiritual path. for the layman buddhism is just a religion would you want to thump it 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 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 comer. which buddhists believe i think the chances of reincarnation. by 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. is one of the most beautiful spots around by co. 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 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. this time give gainey has organized a tool he would take a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of by cold. the starting point is near the same nose peninsula this land is covered in tool mountains and thick forests. in the old days revered 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's 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 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 berga mongols when habit is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are home 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 old 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. whenever a bad mum pulses boy 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 use 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 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 further cones and juniper into the fire. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. didn't you know for the skin to get a good calorie it is smoked for thirty minutes. then it is turned over and smoked from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother the whole field 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 help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. just. for.

the 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's 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 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 dat 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 a body at buddhist lama. several buddhist lamas gather on a 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 exempt on that date. largely binyamin the cedar sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters the cure for the body of does she does relate to gil if it was in a lotus position or if it was examined on september eleventh three medical physiologists myself and a top loader slater's attended the ceremony killable a lot of his body showed no signs of decomposition in your story 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 and killer to moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails most course clear which are they confirmed that does belong to a living man. 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 and he responded with a nod 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 and i'm with you when she nodded at me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad you mean my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm my fifth doctor said it had been a very close shave and she must have been born under a lucky star the. news of the miraculous recovery of events 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 sewer festival for the first time boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all bloody ats 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 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 joy can scare them away. at the beginning of the ritual the shamans some in 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 people

have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stirred sculpture pleads with the supremum 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 cyclists is a stone garden. large rocks going back to the voice 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 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 enter it 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 good. is regarded as the pincian saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to says in body attia many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility. in a song that 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 i got it 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 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 dancing go. now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone some a lot of all else go 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 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 it will come pursued the valley of volcano some of fifty kilometers from. lost or up to ten or twelve thousand years ago you lost sleep thought it. would last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother pool at. 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 their ancestors. to a lot 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 i've been tending yak since. just like my father and grandfather did my family sells mate 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. what are they are. when the child. 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 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 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. wall

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