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levels but the spanish people have expressed little faith that the fresh faces will bring about any needed change of. heart and extra nazi we travel to the south of russia to visit the only buddhist region in europe come here and stay with us. yes but i have two names that my parents made me say get. it that's when i was fifteen years old i was accepted as a buddhist monastery just took my vows. my teacher gave me a new name young ten law joy milton nelms and means dignity laundry means small it

. did what i was away from my home and four years studying in india at the may do so my first holidays plays honestly coincide with the festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple. the essence of that i will need to toss nearly the entire length of our steps to get there. and junia a long and interesting journey known as the wide path lies ahead of me. is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic

tribes that served in ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep here from mongolia they were called the oil rights. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comix after swearing an oath of allegiance. splinters are alexei ramana of . however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this alone poplar tree in the step is a sacred place whole comics. legend has it it's a man by the name of burke on black sheep a comic turned buddhist monk planted it one hundred fifty years ago. his hope was that the seeds he had brought from tibet would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its long life remains on.

these kell making women are singing one of the world's most famous put his mantras the shade of a tree the oldest evil symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. kept upshaw manik beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. that i'm stressed as learned about buddhism roaming mongolia steps. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to our homelands and our home when i was a child my parents conformed the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right but it has parallels with buddhism. and is performed each year in the spring and in autumn. in autumn we make offerings to the fire we ask for

a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course we say buddhist prayers to avert war and natural calamitous across the world. one sacred personality of cow make history is a gun. he is known by many titles the white old man the master and protector of the step and the patron saint of nomads. even though his teachings are rooted in sharman as a statue of him stands outside europe's largest buddhist temple called the golden abode of the shockey a moony buddha this sixty three metre tall building and as capital s star can be seen from any point in the city. the grand temple can accommodate

a huge number of people the press services and grand festivals is a trucks tourists and buddhists from all over the world come yes come. tibetan monks from the cured med monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony they begin creating a sound mandela one of the sacred traditions of put as tensions. the sound of mandela is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode burn in light and. color marble sand is applied to the canvas through a cone shaped chain. this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and after getting good will be among dollar of thirty million one tacky

day it seems i'd like to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with them dollars and i'm going to see them and dollar they'll say i'm going to accumulate merits i'll try to achieve a human psyche state of compassion i'm reluctant and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world achieve the status. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but no way seats a vast country with endless steps. that as i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live. the stamp is the best place for nomads. to look at this coming is such a big country but part of it rests against the scene. amazingly it means that cal makes to spend nearly all their time on the plains are pretty good at catching fish

. then a good day hello can i go with you sure jump on. the mickey is southeast of boulder delta close to the town of like. a narrow channel links the solti lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. copes with homemade wooden cabins bob about in the open water. fishermen live hedger in the summer and autumn they spend five months a year at sea many miles from family and friends. strong arabs and flows in the caspian sea make for drastic changes in water level they form underwater sandbags and fix sediment long life boats like this one are the best form of transport and these hazardous parts. of the fisherman have a hard job to do

a cow make net is shaped like a long round chest with several meshes made of fine metal netting. quite often the nets catch seaweed as well as fish. only someone with a good deal of experience can become a boarder poached with low sides and keep his balance. of. order these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small wood floor and this is no good either. on wiring doors or your regular humid this car is ok i'll keep it in my two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good carriage it will fetch a handsome price at the market one section of the black earth nature reserve and county kids northwest is of great interest to

ornithologists b.p. overflowing mannix river empties into lake manage good deal there are no fisherman here because the water contains so much salt that fish cannot survive in it. this marshall and is a protected area of county clear it has been given international status of birds rain supremum here. the archipelago is a stopping point on the ground migration path for birds halfway between europe and asia. dozens of species can behave in the autumn any attempt to approach them will fail. but birds know only too well how to keep at a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instruments. also see for a lot of birds stop over here is the way it is one reason is that they will not be disturbed while nesting and secondly

a nature reserve is going to buy rangers or is with. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the sidebar antelope its trunk right nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps research shows haven't yet figured out its function but if you put in the pool there are three theories concerning it of this one says the nose filters like the dr just kicked up by the herd. others say that it is an excellent cooling system that helps fend off the scorching sun the third suggests that the cider uses this kind of nose make a peculiar blaring sound during mating. aleksandr bad mire of watches and celebs on the steps for several hours a day he works for the republic's wildlife research institute which is situated

well away from populated areas the institute is focused on protecting the european population of saigon tulips. well what it is richer as someone working here i know that sega's have different tempers just as humans do and some of them are more agile than others i would say one of them here is too energetic we call him the orca is always kicking a ball and overturning it because it kicks up a fuss because he thinks we don't give him enough food what i say here on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him no problem at all a small sidebar heard lives some breeds in a special enclosure under suman protection each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild to go out of my way home from work and the fact that the cider has not been thoroughly studied yet is simply because it's hard to catch this

animal. only recently have researchers started taking an interest in the antelope but when so far they have only drawn policeman ery findings. with two days to go before the grand buddhist festival in alice starr volunteers are preparing the temples in tyria for the rituals they are even entrusted with the honor of filling the boarders bowl of alms after the festival these twelve canonic images of the founder of put ism will be sent to small rural temples and comics. seventeen year old alina by a high ever goes to an ordinary secular school in alice stark whenever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help a month. thing that france has brought me here i was ashamed for something i did in

the past but not anymore i have a sense that by giving a helping hand here i had made amends what i did my camera has become queen. that's a bet in months put the finishing touches on the yamantaka sand dollar. in accordance with tradition people walk around the palace clockwise from the whole process is believed to give as many blessings to people as the number of grains of sand that went into its creation. out connoisseurs terms such works symbolic obstructionism to worshippers the man dollar is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with buddhist custom the man dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony that will complete the festival. deals

my journey is in its third day. of the buddhist traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the move and meditation is best done out in the open. i have no problem with the sloan poplar yes it's a haven symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive like hell next step is a mystery to me. as a rule i pray at sunset with the sake of all living creatures that will make each day be more fortunate for them than the last. rushers the so much good music may have had a lot of people a very delicate uncertain future as the eurozone grapples with the single currency what is the future of political union to save the euro is it necessary to fix.

the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and worship has from india mongolia thailand and other countries. bury cuz it is an american doctor and a personal physician to his holiness the dalai lama he lives in the indian town of salah where he gives medical assistance to the needy. there the locals call him by the name venerable this is not barry's first visit to come. buddhism in comic is different than buddhism in other parts of the world you know during his very

difficult seventy years it was they nearly lost their culture completely and now they're reviving it and you can feel this revival for example i go to japan a lot in there they have a buddhist culture a buddhist history and many of the people say they're buddhist but when you ask them much about buddhism they don't know anything and you ask them where do they turn when their lives are in trouble and usually they turn to work or money but here they turn to the temple to the buddha to the teachers and that's a big difference. the temple is open to worship present taurus to like even during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place and europe's only put is for public and the main attraction of kalmykia is capital summer brought by religion now there's a curious to see it's magnificent tyria traditionally nearly all visitors walk

around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the gold a nine meters statue of the shock. and you just like us our religion was frowned upon in soviet times i was just a little boy back then a grandmother taught me how to pray in secret in candlelight i fold my hands said prayer several times and bowed to the small figurine about buddha after today any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle of good ism is enter trying for the history and ethnicity of our people. to was once easy to lose one's way in the stamp locals like saying that people there are going to die the devil. actually sometimes you realize that you are going around in circles but you can't do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the stir you may get lost. i don't want to lose

a war after all domestic animals like cows and sheep and camels either do somehow find their way back to their parents. to hump camels have helped man survive in this past region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital always count also need is wormwood and thorny plants which are found in step. camels are not put off by brackish filthy water they can even do without it for several days. come with camels and lived side by side with us ever since the appearance of the first comic settlements are the best animals from an economic point of view people can live off their for milk and meats and can

easily survive in this environment. shepherds used to bring camels close to their camps for the night this was so they didn't have to search for them the following morning or cal mix and trusted the job to poison the young men horses are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse in front of the herd of camels he would rest assured that his steed would not let him down and battle it has been a long time since comics last went to war but the tradition of boys being sent to herd camels into enclosures lives on an old cow make proverb sais that a whip is the nomads best friend. settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found. geed none to show of learned the handicraft of his father he teaches the art of

whip braiding at the local school in his spare time he works at his courtyard workshop in line with an old cow make custom he hardly ever takes off his cap man and i thought i know how to model the traditional cows is an important part of comic attire for my mother urged me to keep my cab by my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governor time gone and started. our ancestors to first turn their caps for the red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes to. hide the timing is an important part of the whip making process today like hundreds of years ago cows milk is used to soften the skins the hides are kept in a warm place for several days afterwards the hair is completely removed and cut only strong elastic hides are used for making whips

georgie is in the habit of making whips at sunset. at dusk in the old days warrior nomads to make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip called the mallya georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. true long all cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving issue during the comet which is different in that it consists of several sections making it more effective because ungar also it looks like a braid rather than a pattern something that the cows are whip has for example. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side the proof is still in an arm called up. on weekends many people leave

towns and villages to attend local fairs traditional wrestling fights a regular feature such events. the rules are simple to win contestants need to force any part of their opponent's body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the combatants are allowed to grab the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century cow mick wrestling was a rigorous martial arts fight has frequently caused heavy injuries to one another but i play it as a national sport practiced mostly by professional geezer west and both freestyle and classic restless. after the end of the bout when i was required to perform with dogs otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such is the kalmucks edition. i.

am. i was born in and it's on lived there for fifteen years. in the right i like it here mostly because it's my hometown. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in the city jammed with crowds and motor vehicles. if that world is alien to me the american people and are always in a hurry. it is and that constant desire for a good house car job food and clothes makes many nor there in a world. where i believe therefore that such place is a perfectly ok sions for temples so that people can find spiritual balance that.

monks from various countries attending the festival offer that pratt's. ten blood oyo has undertaken a long journey for the opportunity to join the. chorus of voices reading out buddhist texts is interlaced with the sound of tibetan drums cymbals and trumpets. it is all part of a sacred ritual to remove obstacles in the way of spiritual development and light a moment welfare and peace of mind for everybody taking part. in the. attempt is made whole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite theirs and it's a batson language feel in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary toll it's taking part in the ritual and their own fashion.

it's. candlelight at dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful odds with everybody offering lights to the. this ceremony has been organized by monks from thailand. the papal lantern was they brought from home a lifted by the hotseat produced by the flames. and nobody can move from one such a mountain single handed they're designed in such a way back to both as many people as possible. anybody that launches a mountain is paying homage to the shock a movie put it on cleansing their karma the dark negative energy so as to reach

spiritual balance it's. really space with a very very happy but it's not so much due to the wonderful ceremony. which was indeed a beautiful around but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. you know.