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| During early winter, local women perform their daily circumambulations around the chorten at Horchu. The flags are printed with auspicious prayer, which carries on its back the flaming jewel that grants all wishes. Every circumambulation of a mani wall equals a recitation of the mantra carved upon its flat rocks, just as each flutter of a prayer flag sends forth the charms printed upon it. Prayer, circumambulation, prostration, offerings – religious merit comes from all these rituals, for they are tangible links to a spiritual state, and they bring the worshipper into contact with the divine. |
all text & images © Manoj Kheradia