and two years rebuilding from roots. for technological breakthroughs save lives. and where people are forced to stay. close so on the partying. one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines new york police get heavy handed with crowds of angry protesters demanding social and economic reform in the u.s. thousands gathered for the biggest rally of a three week long demonstration jugged occupy wall street. back from the dead the syrian woman reported as the first female victim of the government's pro-democracy crackdown turns up alive and well forcing several media into backtracking after giving her suppose that death saturation coverage. violence flares up during

a twenty four hour nationwide strike in greece with police resorting to tear gas to disperse crowds in athens the latest protests come as workers grow increasingly angry with fighting austerity cuts. up next r.v. guides you through spiritual siberia were mountain peaks and deep lakes have inspired generations stay with us. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shame and it's 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 trying 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 gori actually is south west close to the border with mongolia. 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 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. there were now.

but most on the coast once to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks troy in the mantle of the senate is going to go with one of. the one of the only thing. he believes to show manic ritual will ward off any dangerous joining the long trip. but. for sure. this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here to hear from 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. to the health of 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's a process of globalization going on where we've set up a religious organization to 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's 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 of voice as a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from disease can be shamans told shaman sickness. plan is supposed to have a mind of semantics 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 were allowed boris to attend a 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 berea always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors and we pray for glorious and for everyone else living here not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good

fortune and wealth with. the sort of ahem festival is held in the funny fingers plateau of last night's 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. they do look like by fingers sticking out of the ground what people think 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. of evil going ski down. a major good just ministry monks roy's early in the movie. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. in the middle of.

the last year of the monks lead a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the ministry's one hundred seventy inhabitants follower 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 the stick life is very simple there are several months to a room but cuba because all of the students from the university live in this small building this is my bed because there are students also live here and i of course. there was also room for the teacher. 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 not only. 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 shut down turmoil for the crimson group of a monk. i became disenchanted with conventional life womanish from that i realised that it would get me nowhere. that is when i decided to take the spiritual path. but the layman buddhism is just a religion would do motion some but for people who want to move forward and study the teaching in earnest it is a pound a science. and it's almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you spend a lifetime studying you know what. 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 day. each of the drums contains files of sheets of paper press inscribed only. 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 could just believe i think the chances of reincarnation. but i call the world's deepest lake local tribes worshiped it long before the arrival of russian colonists. guinea cliff because it's in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every nook in the shores of the great lake.

bugaboos in bay 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 that's going to just kind of start from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mount markoff with its snowy talk. the snow is still there even though it is the month of june now where there's almost the beach is about thirty kilometers long. it's the longest beach on by cal. so right down to this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of waikato. the starting point is near the st louis peninsula this land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days we had three of 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 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 as here. another point of interest is in the valley of bug was in river the area is often called the since the stone console 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 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 shamans. in the a kinski district on the other side of. bad mud on the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever bad mouth pulses boy he stops some battles to it a full pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile but must grow the bullets and his wife the treating yak skins.

soils use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses. this technique is i wasn't to be as old local still prefer who made things. my mother taught me to skill. that's how my parents always did it there's 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. and put further cones and juniper into the fire this gives yet skin the necessary firmness and color. for the skin to get a good calorie just smoked for thirty minutes. then it is turned over. night from the other such. 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 roads here. to get here his elder brother will have to cross several fast flowing mountain streams. pull out all six local spirits for help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk.

eventual cause of business evil that same almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after a husband was shot in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullets vented her temple

exited from the back of the head but i mean with other doctors told me the injury was fatal kludgy might die within minutes from what it was nothing my wife and i could do about it i sent my wife to hospital expecting her to bring the body back here but she's got over it. even had never been a follower of autism but he visited even that 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 in a body at put his diploma. several good islam has gathered on 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 that he should be exuberant on that date. blog lavinia see the sarcophagus was at a depth of one point three meters

a gift for the body of that she does really guillot she was in a lotus position where it was examined on september eleventh for a medical physiologists myself and a top order slater's attended the ceremony killable the lama's body showed no signs of decomposition in your story it was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. besides his body was warm and its temperature was thirty six point six degrees of its interest to frist. local scientists couldn't work out what the law had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected let's get a check of the moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails last course the richer they confirmed that does belong to a living man. like. if he gives body was brought to evil

pinski death 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 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 can questions and just communicate with them he responded with a nod and facial expression. a nagging thought i had of the time was this if i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens and i'm with him when he noted me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at me and my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here with the i was at one pm not the doctor said it had been

a very close shave she must have been born under a lucky star the. news of the miraculous recovery of evens spread quickly across and beyond. graham's flock to evil that's. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to cash. is restricted eight times a year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the through on 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 a shamans life and from disease he found no place for himself either in society or in his inner self when he found out that powerful shamans have been in his clan he turned to a teacher 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 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 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 undertaking. within. the next stop for the cyclist's is a stone garden. large rocks going back to the boy sage 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 travelling around but he actually is holy places funny arrived at the highlights of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist goddess young. 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. 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 said that 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 like i did 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 yang humor 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 girl. now

it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone along with some along of all else with a should make your personal please most sincerely 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 on the cough is a parent to complete his journey 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 and rural didn't come close to the valuable trainers to some fifty kilometers from

here probably last erupted ten or twelve thousand years ago you know. and last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother. 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 and it 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 i've been tending accents. just like my father and grandfather did my family sells meat and milk for a living you know 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 funny thing good 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 and. the critical moment arrives when the shamans take turns going into a state of trunks. like. but he adds believe that such moments shaman's a no longer themselves that voting is have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. called i know there's

a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought and you with your eyes you see the people around you but you barely 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. and. when the fire goes out and eagle appears over the five fingers platter. the sacrifice has been accepted and their prayers he did. the next year will be

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