review of the way with me kevin and tahrir square is the scene of the most violent clashes in egypt since february seventh lucian the toppled hosni mubarak protests have continued for more than a week now with growing calls for the military to the suspect down ahead of monday's. russia gets turn over the missile u.s. so u.s. missile shield in eastern europe president says moscow will deploy its own strike systems unless it's short it will not be a target at the same time the russian leader stressed the importance of dialogue which moscow remains open. and let him approach to the current prime minister

russia's formally nominated to run for the presidency next year is kind of this it was proposed at the united russia bench on sunday it was given unanimous support of the delegates. thanks as promised a few minutes ago r.t. travels to the barren russian steps to discover. more about europe's only buddhist republic. yes but i have two names and he to my parents made me say. it that's when i was fifteen years old i was accepted at a buddhist monastery just took my vows. my teacher gave me

a new name. milton nelms 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 may do so my first holidays please let us play coincide with the festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple and. filled with a sense of that but i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get the. city you me and all along an interesting journey known as the wide path lies ahead of me.

is the step preacher in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in gangs khan's army brought their horses and sheep here from mongolia they were called the oil rods. 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 populace survived the rigorous climate. the secret to

its long life remains on. these kalman women are singing one of the world's most famous buddhist mantras in the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit and. the count makes of kept upshaw manik beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. that i'm assessed as learned about buddhism or roaming mongolia steps and. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to our homeland and our home when i was a child my parents be form the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right 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 buddhist bread is to war and that for the 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 moon a buddha 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 it attracts tourists and put ists from all over the world come yes come. tibet and monks from the good mad monastery in india have come to come meet 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 his teachings. the sandman dollar is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened. colored marble sand is applied to the canvas through a cone shaped tube this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and owners are due to go to

a new b m m dollar of thirteen rio and turkey day two yes i'd 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 dollar they'll say once again i'm going to accumulate merits trying to achieve a yemen talkies state of compassion and enlightenment and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world achieve the stated. used this when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now i see to vast country with endless steps. you've got is that i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live eat the stuff is the best place for nomads. go mickey that's coming here is such a big country that part of it rests against a scene. that has amazingly it means that cal makes the spend nearly all their time

on the plane a pretty good at catching fish. than a good day hello can i go with you sure jump on. tell me q. is se the vulgar 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 bob about in the open water fishermen live here during 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 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 live from a border post with low sides and keep his balance. of it and these are small fry so we released them once of the and even this one is too small . this is no good either would you do it on wiring. this car please ok i'll keep it by my a 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 nature reserve and county kids northwest 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 it has been given international status birds range supremum 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 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. want to stop over here is the way it is one reason is that they will

not be disturbed at all nesting and secondly the nature reserve is going to buy ranges of the yes's with better. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the saigon until its trunk white nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps researchers haven't yet figured out its function. because there are three theories concerning it i've noticed 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 psycho uses this kind of knows to make a peculiar blaring sound during mating. aleksandr but my of watches saigon antelopes 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 saigon antelopes. rich or someone working here i know that goes have different tempers just as humans do some of them are more agile than others i would say one of them here is too energetic but 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 we're asked to hear on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him no problem at all a small seigel herd lives in breeds in a special enclosure under human protection. each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild forgotten of the always mission was open 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 every findings of the year. 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 alms. after the festival these twelve canonic images of the founder of buddhism will be sent to small rural temples and comic. seventeen year old alina by a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice star whenever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks their. 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 care my has become clean and so . little better than money it's put the finishing touches on the yamantaka sandman 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. but connoisseurs terms such works symbolic obstructionism. to worship has the money 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 conclude the festival.

deals in my journeys and it's the. police with the buddhist traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the moon and meditation is best done out in the open. i have no problem with the sloan pope yes it's a human symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive the calyx step is a mystery to me. as a rule i pray at sunset with the sake of all living creatures of weeks to make each day be more fortunate for them than the last.

mission free accreditation free transport free. arrangement free. free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and a free medio dog r.t. dot com. the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and worshippers 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 kill me. buddhism in comic is different than buddhism 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 yeah 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 taurus to like even

during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place in europe's only buddhist republic and the main attraction of company is capital. some are brought in by religion others a curious to see its magnificent interior. traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the gold a nine meet a statue of the shock. and you can talk us out of 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 as good as them is enter twined with a history and ethnicity of our people.

to believe was in c.z. to lose one's way in the step locals like saying that people there are guided by the devil. actually sometimes you realize that you are going around in circles but you can do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the step you may get lost. in god the muslims are one after all domestic animals like cows sheep and camels either do somehow find their way back to their pens. to hump camels have helped man survive in this sparse region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital all these camels need is wormwood and forney plants which are found in the step. camels are not put off by brackish filthy water they can even do without it for

several days. come with camels have 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 meat have camels 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. cow mixon trusted the job to boys and young men horses are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse in 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 sais that to where is the nomads best friend. the cow mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in a whip making can still be found door geed nanda show of learned the handicraft of his father he teaches the art of whip grading 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 and then our form of the traditional cowboy is an important part of comic attire. my mother urged me to keep my cabin by my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governor to go on taiji instructed the. stairs to festoon their caps with a red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes that to.

hide 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 is in the habit of making whips at sunset. at dusk in the old days warrior nomads would make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip called the malia georgie receives the bulk of requests 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 cow macwhich is different in that it consists of several sections making it more

effective in our figures on the car also it looks like a braid rather than a pattern something that the cows are whip has for example having a launching. pad there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side to prove his skill in unarmed combat. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local says traditional wrestling fights a regular feature of such events. the rules are simple too when contestants need to force any part of their opponent's body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the competent are allowed to grab the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century count like wrestling was a rigorous martial art fight as frequently caused heavy injuries to one another was today it is

a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo ist and both freestyle and classic restless. after the end of about two when i was required to perform a dunce otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such is the comic tradition. i. am what. it is i was born in this time and lived there for fifteen years. in there and i like it here mostly because it's my hometown. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in a city jammed with crowds and motivators. at that world is alien to me in the past people and are always no hurry. you know it is beneath that constant desire for a good house car job or food and clothes makes many good nor there in a world. or in a place i believe therefore that such places

a perfect locations for temples that we know so that people can find spiritual balance that. the monks from various countries attending the festival offer that pratt's the 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 lighten meant welfare and peace of mind for everybody taking part. in the.

the temples main hole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite theirs in a tibetan language that few in attendance understand. but this doesn't hinder ordinary tourists from taking part in the ritual in their own fashion. ever since. the candlelight at dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful part with everybody offering light to the boredom. 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. nobody can launch one such lambton singlehanded they're designed in such a way that the active bowls for as many people as possible. anybody that mulch is a mountain is paying homage to the shock your movie put it on cleansing the common dog negative energy so as to reach spiritual balance it's. delicious with the word that i was very very happy here but it's not so much due to the wonderful ceremony. it was indeed a beautiful abound but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. but you don't. look.

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