Monks offer butter lamps. Bodgaya, india. Monks offer butter lamps in front of 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
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Shot date: December 2006
Upload date: August 2012
Artist: Thomas Kelly
Release status: Not Model or Property Released
Shot date: December 2006
Upload date: August 2012
Artist: Thomas Kelly
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