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a. mum. yes 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 town law joy. and means dignity lot only means small it.

didn't go there i was away from my homeland for years studying in india at the reviews on my first holidays and well as they coincide with a festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple. the essence of the but i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get the. union along an interesting journey known as the wall its path lies ahead of me. here is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in benghazi khan's army brought their horses and sheep

here from mongolia they were called the oil runs. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comix after swearing an oath of allegiance. to the czar alexei romano. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this lone poplar tree in the step is a sacred place for all comics. legend has it that a man by the name of but can back she 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 of. these cal making women singing one of the world's most famous put ist mantras in

the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. account makes of kept up show manic beliefs in the spirits of nature a sensation times. i am sisters learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to our homelands and our home when i was a child my parents perform the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen rights but it has parallels with buddhism. it 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 we

just breast over it war and natural calamitous across the world. one sacred personality of comic history it's a gun of he is known by many titles a white old man a 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 gooda this sixty three metre tall building in kalmykia has capital l. a 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 attracts tourists and put ists from all over the world coming p.s.

coming. tibetan monks from the good med monastery in india come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony and begin creating a sound mandela one of the sacred traditions of buddhist teachings. the sound of mandela is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened day. colored marble sound as applied to the canvas through a cone shaped tube. this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. under her duty god will be a mom dollar of thirteen million one turkey day students i'd like to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with the mandela i'm going to see them i'm going to tell say i'm going to accumulate

merits i'll try to achieve a yemen talky state of compassion unlike some mints and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world and shoot the stars. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now a seats a vast country with endless steps. i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live eat the stuff is the best place for nomads. go make it was coming here is such a big country that part of it rests against the sea. but amazingly it means that scowl makes it spend nearly all their time on the plane a particular catching fish. and a good day hello can i go with you sure jump on. tell

me q.'s southeast of all the delta close to the town of like. a narrow channel links the solti lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. boats with homemade wooden cabins 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 a drastic changes in water level they form underwater sandbanks and fix sediment long life boats like this one of 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 click on the border coat with low sides and keep his balance. of it but these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small. this is no good either. on wawrinka. this car is ok i'll keep it by my other two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good catch it will fetch a handsome price at the market one section of the black earth nature reserve and county kids north west is a great interest to ornithologists. the overflow and manage river empties into lake manage goodfellow 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 coming here it has been given international status of birds reign supreme here. the archipelago was a stopping point on the ground migration path for birds half way between europe and asia. dozens of species gather here in the autumn any attempt to approach them will fail. the birds know only too well how to keep at a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instruments or people who have a specific line of bird 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 going to buy ranges over the years as with.

one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia as the sidebar until its trunk white nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps or searches haven't yet figured out its function but if you put it there are three theories concerning it of no 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 fend off the scorching sun the third suggests that the cider uses this kind of nose make a peculiar blaring sound during may take a shot of. alexander but my of what is saigon until it's 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 antelopes. well with a vision rich or someone working here i know that sagas have different tempers just as humans do some of them are more agile than others but i would say one of them here is too energetic we call him yorker he is always kicking the ball and overturning 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 is no problem at all a small side guard heard lives in breeds in a special enclosure under suman protection a cheer scores of healthy adults are released into the wild to think of the more we can route the fact that the saga 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 syria 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 town halls and comically. seventeen year old alina by a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice starr whatever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks. that 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 have made amends who aided my caramel has to come clean and.

that's a bet in months put the finishing touches on the yamantaka sand non-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 connoisseur terms such works symbolic obstructionism to worshippers the mundo is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with buddhist custom the non-dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony that will conclude the festival. deals in my journeys in its third day. with 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 the calixto is a mystery to me. of wisdom as a rule i pray at sunset with the sake of all living creatures that we've made each day be more fortunate for them than the last. well with. its technology innovation called the least envelopment around russia we've got the future covered.

the international buddhist festival and kalmykia has brought together tourists and worship has from india mongolia thailand and other countries barry cousins 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 to call me. buddhism in comic is different than good ism in other parts of the world you know during his 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. the temple is open to worship isn't colas to life 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 comic it's capital. some are brought here by religion others are curious to see its magnificent interior traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the cold a nine meter statue of the shakyamuni buddha. religion

was frowned upon in soviet times and 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 a small figurine of the buddha after today any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle of good islam is enter twined with the history and ethnicity of our people. steeply was in season as 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. if you don't take a time out there in the stuff you may get lost. and 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 ne 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 nick settlements will have 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. cow mix and trusted the drug to boys and young men all 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 comics last went to war but the tradition of boys being sent to herd camels into enclosures lives on. an old cow mick proverb say's the to whip is the no man's best friend. cal mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found. geed nunda 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

and also not traditional couch is an important part of comic attire. my mother urged me to keep my care of my my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governors are gone taiji instructed the our ancestors to first turn their caps with a 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 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. through a long while cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving sure they kalmuck 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 having a long string. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side to prove his spill and unarmed combat. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local fairs traditional wrestling fights and the 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 kalmuck wrestling with a rigorous martial arts fighters frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i today it is a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo west and both freestyle and classic restless. after the end about whatever is required to perform a dance 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. i don't know why as i feel uncomfortable in a city jammed with crowds and motor vehicles. at that world is alien to me with people and are always no hurry. it is and that constant desire for a good house car job food and clothes makes many ignore their in a world. where i believe therefore that such places are perfectly ok sions for temples so that people can find spiritual balance that. the monks from various countries attending the festival offer that pratt's.

young ten blood boil has undertaken a long journey for the opportunity to join the. chorus of voices reading output is text is interlaced with the sound of tibetan drums cymbals and trumpets. and. it is all part of a sacred ritual to remove obstacles in the way of spiritual development and light and meant welfare and peace of mind for everybody taken parts. of. the temples main hole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite theirs and it's a baton language that feel in attendance understand. but this doesn't in the ordinary forests in taking part in the ritual in their own fashion.

it's. the candlelight it dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful with everybody offering light to the border. this ceremony has been organized by monks from toilet. paper lanterns they brought from home a lifted by the hot sap produced by the flames. and nobody can launch one such mountain singlehanded they're designed in such a way that the active voles for as many people as possible. anybody that monster is a mountain is paying homage to the shock your move on cleansing their common dark negative energies so as to reach spiritual balance it's.

made with a very very happy but it's not so much due to the wonderful ceremony. it was indeed a beautiful events but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. you know. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. if. me me me me me me me me. me me. me me me me. emission free accreditation free. for charges free arrangements.