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Spituk Monastery, also better as Spituk Gompa or Pethup Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery in Leh district, Ladakh, northern India [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Ceremony at the Buddhist monastery in Spituk [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Deep thoughts [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Praying cards [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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We were lucky enough to spend a full day with the monks [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Monk meeting [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Start of the ceremony [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Cool monk [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Special fire is made for the offerings [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Young monk has the task to keep the older monk out of the burning sun [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Keeping up the umbrella is a difficult task for a short young monk [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Table with offerings [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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One of the monks is leading the prayers. The monks told us that they mainly pray for three things: compassion, power (protection) and wisdom [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Rituals [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Still keeping up the umbrella ... it is a (too) long ceremony [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Monk on his way to the ceremony [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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A 'mandala' is a real piece of art, made of coloured grains. No glue is used and it took several monks a week to make it. At the end of the ceremony today, they will destroy it as symbol for the fact that all things on earth are transistory, and one shoul
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Monks starts to destroy the manadala, as sign that everything on earth is transistory, so one should not attach to it ... even if it is very beautiful. We are lucky to have a picture of it [Spituk Monastery / Ladakh - India]
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On the way to the Indus River for the last part of the ceremony [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Ceremony at the Indus River starts [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Small statues made of Tsampa (local grain product) were also thrown in the river [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Milk is offered in the Indus River [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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The sand of the destoyed mandala is offered to the Indus River [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Landscpape in where the Spituk monastery is located [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]
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Ceremony at the Indus River is over ... back to the monatery [Spituk Monatery / Ladakh - India]