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the wake of a un atomic watchdog report casting doubt on the motives behind his nuclear aims which tehran insists a peaceful i'll be back with more developing stories for you and less than half an hour from now in the meantime we travel to the south of russia to visit the only buddhist region in europe staging for that it's an amazing journey. you know what i have two names and my parents need me so they 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 sandlot boy milton nelms and means dignity locally means small it . did what i was away from my homeland for years studying in india at the me these are my first holidays and honestly they coincide with the festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple. the essence of them but i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get there. be to you me and to a long and interesting journey known as the watch path lies ahead of me.

is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that serbs and ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep here from mongolia they were called the oil rods. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comics after swearing an oath of allegiance. still the czar alexei romano. however they reserve the right to practice the religion of the choice. this alone pluck a tree in the step is a sacred place for all comics. legend has it but a man by the name of burke can back she a comic turned buddhist monk planted it one hundred and 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 protest mantras the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. the cow mix of kept up show manic beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. i'm stressed as learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia's steps. after so the ritual of making offering still our homeland and our home when i was a child my parents to form the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right but it has parallels with buddhism. and has been formally cheering

in the spring and in autumn. in also make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course was able to spread to avert war and natural calamitous across the world. one sacred personality of comic history is such a gun of. 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 moonie buddha this sixty three metre tall building and comically as capital l. a stark can be seen from any point in the city.

the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people the press ever says and grand festivals it attracts tourists and put ists from all over the world come meet us capital. tibetan monks from the good mad monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony and begin creating a sound one dollar one of the sacred traditions of put his teachings. the soundman dollar is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened. colored marble sand is applied to the canvas from a cone shaped chin this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across

the world. and energy to god the new b m m dollar of thirteen rio and turkey day it seems i love to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with them and. i'm going to see them and allah they'll say i'm going to accumulate merits trying to achieve a yemen takis state of compassion and like sentiments and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world actually respect. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but nowadays seats a vast country with endless steps. and gardens i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live even the step is the best place for nomads. colicky become a care is such a big country that clovis rests against the sea. amazingly it means that cal

makes his spend nearly all their time on the plane a pretty good at catching fish. then a kid say hello can i go with you sure jump on. the. tomiki is southeast of boulder delta close to the town of like. a narrow channel links to silty lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. copes with homemade wooden cabins bob about in the open water fishermen who live here joy 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 water levels they form underwater sandbags and fix sediment long life boats like this one are the best form of transport and these

hazardous parts. the fisherman have a hard job to do a cow make net is shaped like a long round chest with several meshes made a fine metal netting. quite often the nets capture seaweed as well as fish. only someone with a good deal of experience can click on a border post with low sides and keep his balance. these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small workflow this is no good either. on wiring. this car is ok i'll keep it by my two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good care it will fetch a handsome price at the market one section of

the black earth nature reserve and county kids north west is of great interest to ornithologists. the overflow and manage river empties into lake manage good deal oh there are no fisherman here because the water contains so much salt that fish cannot survive in it. this marshland is a protected area of comic here and has been given international status birds reign supreme here. the archipelago was a stopping point on the ground migration path for birds halfway between europe and asia dozens of species gather here in the autumn any attempt to approach them to fail. the birds know only too well how to keep a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instruments what you also see for why the birds stop over here is the way it is one reason is that

they will not be disturbed while nesting and secondly the nature reserve is guarded by rangers over the years as with. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the sidebar until its trunk white nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps research as haven't yet figured out its function he put in because there are three theories concerning it of this one says the nose filters like the dried dust kicked up by the herd. others say that it is an excellent cooling system that helps fanned off the scorching sun the third suggests the cider uses this kind of nose peculiar blaring sound during mating. aleksandr but my of. celebs on the step 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 psycho antelopes a with someone working here i know that saga is how different tempers just as humans do some of them are more agile than others i would say one of them here is too energetic we call them yorker is always kicking a ball and overturning it it kicks up a fuss because he thinks we don't give him enough food what was said here on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him no problem at all a small sidebar heard live some breeds in a special enclosure under human protection. each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild for example the more we can work on the fact the sager 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 interior for the rituals they are even entrusted with the honor of filling the boarders bowl of arms after the festival these twelve canonic images of the founder of put ism will be sent to small rural temples and comically . seventeen year old alina by a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice starr but as she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks. friends have 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 clean still. it's a betting man it's called the finishing touches on the lemon tarkas soundman 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 term such works symbolic obstructionism to worshippers among dollar is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with goddess custom among dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony that will conclude the festival. deals

in my journeys in its third day. with 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 popular yes it's a haven symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive the calixto is a mystery to me. of which then as a rule i pray at sunset with the sake of all living creatures the author may each day be more fortunate for them than the last. culture is that so much of me is really a lot of people here at berkeley 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 world through the trees. or in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers the future of food under the microscope. we've got the future covered. the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and worshippers from india thailand and other countries barry curzon is an american doctor and personal physician to his holiness the dalai lama. he lives in the indian town of sala where he gives medical assistance to the needy. there the

locals call him by the name venerable this is not barry's first visit. buddhism in comic is different then buddhism in other parts of the world you know during this very difficult seventy years it was that 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 to. the temple is open to worship present taurus to like even during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place europe's only put history public on the main attraction of kalmykia its capital some are

brought here by religion others a curious to see its magnificence tyria traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the cold a nine meters statue of the shock would. you describe. religion was frowned upon in soviet times i was just a little boy back then my grandmother taught me how to pray in secret in candlelight i folded my hands said prayer several times and bowed to the small figurine of the buddha after today any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle buddhism is intertwined with the history and ethnicity of our people. stephanie was in caesar's ones when the staff locals like saying that people there are guided by the devil. actually sometimes you realize that you're going around in circles but you

can do anything about it. to be if you don't take a time out there in the stir you may get lost. but 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 pens. to hump camels have helped man survive in the sparse region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital all these councils 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. of camels lived side by side with us

ever since the appearance of the first cull mix settlements are the best animals from an economic point of view people can live off there for milk and meat and most can easily survive in this environment for the. 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 cal nixon trusted the drug to poison young men or says are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse and front of a herd of camels he would rest assured that his steed would not let him down and battle it has been a long time since cow necks lost went to war but the tradition of boys being sent to herd camels into enclosures lives on. an old cow mick proverb sais that to whip is the no man's best friend. cal mc settle down a long time ago but in every village here

a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found. geed nanda share of learned the handicraft from his father he teaches the art of whip grading at the local school in his spare time he works at his courtyard workshop and line with an old cow make custom he hardly ever takes off his cap man in the form of traditional cowboy is an important part of comic attire. my mother urged me to keep my car my my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governor calgon taiji instructed the our ancestors to first turn their caps with a red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes to. hide tiring is an important part of the whip making process today like hundreds of years ago cows milk is used to suffer 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 dodgy as 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 malia georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. true long now cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving through thank our mic which is different in that it consists of several sections making it more effective because uncle 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 to prove his skill and unarmed combat. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local says additional wrestling fights a regular feature of such events. the rules are simple to when 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 art fight as frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i play date as a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo west and both freestyle and classic restless. after the end of about three when i was required to perform

a dogs otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such as the comic tradition. i. am. i was born in and is a time and lived there for fifteen years he's been there and i like it here mostly because it's my hometown. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in the city jammed with crowds and motor vehicles. at the best world is alien to me and with people and their own business hurry. it is and that constant desire for a good house car job or food and clothes makes me any good nor there in a world. in europe 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 of their pratt's. young ten blood boil 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 the right amount of welfare and peace of mind for everybody taking part. of. the temples main hole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite

theirs and it's a baton language that few in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary toll it's taking part in the ritual in their own fashion. it's. the candlelight of dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful with everybody offering light to the border. this ceremony has been organized by monks from thailand. the papal lantern was they brought from home a lifted by the hot sap produced by the flames. and nobody can launch one such a mountain single and that they're designed in such a way that the active bowls for as many people as possible. anybody

that monitors a mountain is paying homage to the shop here move on cleansing their common dog and that's again a trick so as to reach spiritual balance it's. made with a very very happy but it's also most to you for the wonderful ceremony. it was indeed a beautiful abounds but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. you know.