805-558 - Joranda monks performing obeisance in prayer at temple containing a dhuni, an eternal butter lamp, at dusk, Joranda, Dhenkanal, Orissa, India, Asia
805-879 - Butter lamps lit in Mongar Dzong (monastery), built in the 1930s, one of Bhutan's newest dzongs, built without plans or nails, Bhutan, Asia
805-877 - Prayer flags at Mebar Tsho, The Burning Lake, where Pema Lingpa is said to have held a burning butter lamp under the water, Bumthang, Bhutan, Asia
832-372364 - Butter lamps at the Mahabodhi Temple, place of enlightenment or awakening, "Bodhi" of Siddhartha Gautama, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, Asia
1113-71748 - Monk filling the butter lamps in readiness for the birthday celebrations of Wenshu, Shuxiang temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China
1113-71749 - Monk filling the butter lamps in readiness for the birthday celebrations of Wenshu, Shuxiang Temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China
1113-43584 - Oil lamps and butter lamps, women lighting candles, buddhist ritual, Luohan Temple, buddhist temple downtown, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
1113-43583 - Oil lamps and butter lamps, woman lighting a candle, buddhist ritual, Luohan Temple, buddhist temple downtown, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
1113-43585 - Oil lamps and butter lamps, woman lighting a candle, buddhist ritual, Luohan Temple, buddhist temple downtown, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
1196-191 - Butter lamp offerings to the Bagmati River flowing next to Brahmayani Temple. Newar Village Women wears "Haku Patasi" to the Temple. (Haku Patasi is garb worn by Newari woman). Bhaktapur, Nepal
1196-238 - Monks offer butter lamps. Kalachakra initiation, bodhgaya. India. Monks attending kalachakra initiation at mahaboudhi temple in bodhgaya, india. mahabodhi temple marks site of buddhas enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked
755-15 - Man lights butter lamps in the early morning inside the Buddhist Deva Dharma Mahavihar temple on the edge of Swayambhunath (Swayambhu) (Monkey Temple) stupa on a hill above Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
755-14 - A monk lights butter lamps on gilded shrine at base of stupa at dawn, Swayambhunath (Swayambhu) (Monkey Temple) Buddhist stupa on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia