hello this is r t from moscow is kevin and i were top stories for you in new york police get tough on the thousands of occupy wall street activists furious that their taxes are being used to prop up corporate america protesters are staged the biggest rally in three weeks of being joined now by you it's. a syrian woman seen as the symbol of the regime's brutality against its own people reappears and alive and well after reportedly being beheaded it's for several media and backtracking after giving her supposedly death such a ration coverage. the eurozone finance chiefs look to help out banks that may

suffer a blow from greece's burgeoning debt crisis meanwhile in athens violent protests erupted against ever toughening austerity measures. next hour to go through spiritual siberia where monks and pigs and the lakes of inspired generations. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time good ism here is widely praised. 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. all . twenty six thousand square

kilometers of mountains rivers and virgin forests. humans are rare so right. there can ski district is situated in buri at is south west 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 soil their pneumatic ancestors simple to hear hundreds of years ago. there is just one road that leads to the far away region which is the only commissioned in one nine hundred ninety three however numerous mountain streams often flood it making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turned shamans for help. they were not.

but most on the coast once to see his brother intends a herd of yaks troy in the mountains going to be a little want to. run a little over what. he believes the show manic ritual will ward off any dangerous journey in the long trip. put him in this with this is the right place the rituals as you can see three rivers meet here to take 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 of the city. at the other end of a short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained

a shaman. thanks. the ritual three days would be shamans will be 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 globalisation going on where we've set up a religious organization of shamans this is where the initiations of. course is an entrepreneur who will be among the initiated who would be the most important day of his life. stories knows there's 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 and a voice and

a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from disease can be shamans it's called shaman sickness which clan is supposed to have a line of semantic succession the ability to talk with the spirits it's kind of down from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirits have allowed boris to attend the sort of the hermit festival of shamans. on the way to the festival a novice shaman explains what is ancestors religion means to the people and what the variables always trusted their ancestors each planet a patron saint of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors here we pray for the results of everyone else living here not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth with. the sort of

a sham festival is held in the phony famous 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. where 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 stressed parody. of evil guinn's keep outside his major buddhist monastery monks roy's early in the newly. soaked so has to be up for the first prayer at seven am.

to sit in the bottom tier 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 interrupts the activities at the buddhist ministry. there is a buddhist university in that that's nearly two hundred models attend it. and when i think life is very simple there are several monks to a room to cuba because all students from the university live in this small building and this is my bed but you third year students also live here and i if. there was also room for the teacher. 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 decided to take it up exchanging his show. for the crimson group of a monk. but. i became disenchanted with conventional life of 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 of 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 drums as they make several rounds of the day. each of the drums contains piles of 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 this simple method may improve your karma to disbelieve 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. guinea clip because it is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every new on the shores of the great lake. 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 much of it just kind of from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt are called for that 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 so right. this time you have guinea has organized a tool and with a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of quite cold. the starting point is near the same nose peninsula this land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days 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 of 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 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 berg and mongols will have it is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are home to 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 shaman. in the air kinski district on the other side of put up mud on the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad month plus is the way you stop some violence to it before pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his lonely journey. meanwhile must brother and his wife treating yaks in its. soil so use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses.

this technique is thousands of years old local 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 steaks they make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. they put first cones and juniper into the fall. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. good for the skin to get a good calorie it is smoked for thirty minutes. then it was turned over because it was smoke from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. the. good hasn't seen his brother the hole

for year. like that and says it does 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 is up in the mountains. there are no roots here. to get here his elder brother will have to cross several fast flowing mountain streams. who are also local spirits for help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. to.

download the official anti happily cation joe i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on cheese my bold colors and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the calm. eventual call of business evil guinn ski can't send 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 bullets that enter the temple exited from the back of her head for the doctors told me the injury was fatal could she might die within minutes from not but i 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 out of it. even had never been a follower of judaism but he visited a vote in skipped out sime on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was a voice to pray in front of the under came forty of dashi daughter show it to heal a body at buddhist lama. several good islam has gathered over 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 exuma on that date. largely been you know

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 for a medical physiologists self and a top wouldst ladies attended the ceremony killable the lamas body showed no signs of decomposition and you're still there was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. besides his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six to grace just there to trust the surest. 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 likely to check and 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 the living man and the drugs are one which unlike. this body was

brought to evil that sent 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 really i was there when the long i was brought into the temple and i was told also can questions and just communicate with him and he responded with a nod and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had of the time was this if i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happened 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 every day my daughter suddenly

came out of a coma when i was here and what 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 you still. news of the miraculous recovery of even. spread across and be almost. evil that's. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to cash it or show it 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 super fun 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 you found no place for himself either in society or in his inner self when he found out the 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. rather what you take this camp for example. is underneath the shamans crown. this thing over so this is nonsense. because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see humanoids joy they 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 the stir are about 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 ice 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 scientists traveling around what he actually is holy places funny arrived at the highlight of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist god this young. 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 again without coming. this is a second most popular place for pilgrimage to the evil that. is regarded as the patron saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most

revered go to says. 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 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 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. help must take a narrow path up the hill. legend has it that the republics current chief buddhist was meditating with 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. and

now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone some a lot of all else with a should make your personal please most sincerely icing on the bottom of your heart attack 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 o. kinski district on the coffin as a parent 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

and rural didn't come close to the valuable trainers that some fifty kilometers from where they were probably lost or up to ten or twelve thousand years ago due north dakota. and last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who lives. 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. lived his since i was a child that was the point of moving elsewhere that i came back from my stint in the army and of intending yaks 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 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. the critical moment arrives when the shamans take turns in going into a state of trucks. it's believed that at such moments shamans a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their

ancestors. or there's a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you vision is blood and you become lost in thought horse when you open your eyes you see the people around you but you better remember what's gone on the thought i can't explain it to you 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 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. i'm .