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King Gesar of Ling with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/user/Linglhamo
Popular culture at Matod, town in Golok, near Amnye Machen... It was "the Upper White Ling Kingdom" at the time of King Gesar.
Various stones from the treasury of Amnye Machen, photographed by my friend who could climb on the top of this sacred mountain in Amdo Golok last week end. རྨ་ཆོན་གང་རིའི་གཤམ་ནས་ཐོན་པའི་གཏེར་རྡོ་སྣ་ཚོགས།
The Queen of the Ling Kingdom, Sengcham Drugmo, is ... a monk ! Tongkyab monastery, as well as some others, performs every year Gesar's story. All characters are played by monks, female characters are played by most young and cute ones :)
Today, I became friend with one more Ling Gesar's story association: Bayen monastery from Golok Gabde. Here are some photos of the celebration they performed this summer.
Celebration of "The day of Miracles" in Kirti monastery in Ngaba.
Today, Ling Gesar's horse race sacred dance is still performed in Golok Gabde by monks from Tongkyab monastery (Shashing association). ཤ་ཤིང་རྣམ་ཐར་ཚོགས་པའི་འཁྲབ་སྟོན་བྱེད་པ།
Today's competition in Tibetan language and dances in Golok Gabde.
More than 500 people inside Tibet, in Golok kul, celebrate HH Dalai Lama's birthday, organised today by Mayul Sangchen artistic association.
Just received from Golok : picture of Ling Gesar that my teacher tulku Tsultrim Namgyal sent me. I have no words to express my joy and gratitude.
Image of His Holiness Dalai Lama displayed today in Golok, for the opening ceremony of the restaurant Mayul Tongkyid. རྨ་ཡུལ་སྟོང་སྐྱིད་ཇ་གསོལ་ཁང་ལེགས་འགྲུབ་ངང་སྒོ་འཇེད་ཟིན། དེ་རིང་གི་མཛད་སྒོའི་འདྲ་པར་འགའ།
This video is made by my best friend from Golok Gabde during the 35th gathering of his village, on 15 september 2013. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjE0MTE5MjIw.html v.youku.com
Photos of heavy security measures today in Kumbum monastery (Amdo), as the fake Chinese Panchen Rinpoche was there in visit !
དེ་རིང་རྒྱ་ནག་པན་ཆེན་སྐུ་འབུམ་དུ་ཕེབས་ཡོད་གྲྭ་བཙུན་དང་མང་ཚོགས་དམག་མི་དྲུག་སྟོང་ཙམ་གྱིས་བསུ་བ་བྱེད་བཞིན་པའི་སྣང་ཚུལ འཇལ་བ་ལྷ་ས་ནས་ཐོན་པའི་མི་ཉུ་ཤུ་རྒྱ་མ་བོད་དང་སོག་པོའི་འཇལ་བ་ཅུང་ཟད་ Today's visit of Chinese Panchen to Kumbum monastery.
Happy 26th birthday to my father ;) Srecan 26. rodjendan, tata, da jos sto godina budes ovako lep, pametan i zdrav.
Je vends mon Iaïto, "KURO M2, 72 cm", en acier, très bon état, pour cause départ à l'étranger pour un séjour de longue durée. Prix 300 euros à débattre. Si vous connaissez un intéressé, pourriez-vous lui donner mon tél 06 84 14 06 11, SVP.
The ritual of liberation performed today by the young tulku Tenzin Pelden Tashi, the incarnation of lama Siddhi tulku, master of Tongkyab monastery in Golok Gabde.
The representation of Machen Pomra, god of the mountain Amnye Machen.
Few more photos from the roof of the World, mountain Amnye Machen. The roof of the world is incredibly flat. :)
Downstairs of the sacred mountain Amnye Machen is Golok Mathod, where the is the place of King Gesar to remember that Mathod means "The Upper Ling Kingdom".
Monks from Tongkyab monastery in Golok Gabde made today their first smoke offering for their summer retrait. དེ་རིང་སྟོང་སྐྱབས་དགོན་པའི་དགེ་འདུན་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དབྱར་གནས་ལྷ་བསང་དང་པོ་དེ་ཕུད་བཞིན་འདུགས་ངོ་མ་གཟི་བརྗིད་ལྡན་གི་ཡ།
The space of Ling Gesar's wife, Queen Drugmo in Golok Tharlak.
Few more pics of today's celebration of Buddha Shakyiamuni's turning of the first Wheel of Dharma at Kumbum monastery. This sacred dance symbolise His Holiness The Sun turning around the temple of Maitreya.
Yesterday, Shashing Association of Ling Gesar's story telling and dances performed a sacred dance representing the horse race in which Gesar won his Kingdom and his wife Drugmo. Shashing association is based in Golok Gabde.
ཡབ་རྗེ་བླ་མ ༧བསེ་ཚང་བློ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེས་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་དབང་ཆེན་ལེགས་པར་བརྩལ་བས་བཀའ་དྲིན་གཏང་རག་གི་ཡོན་དུ་མཎྜལ་དང་བརྟན་བཞུགས་ཕུལ་བ།
Durwud, the first village of Ling Gesar's epic tradition.
