http://roam.autarken.net/2007/10/16/chanting-monks-in-shigatse/ we haven't been everywhere, but it's on our list Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://roam.autarken.net/2007/10/16/chanting-monks-in-shigatse/#comment-24 Aaron Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:56:17 +0000 http://roam.autarken.net/2007/10/16/chanting-monks-in-shigatse/#comment-24 wow. that sample is awesome... wow. that sample is awesome…

]]> http://roam.autarken.net/2007/10/16/chanting-monks-in-shigatse/#comment-14 when in roam… » Leaving Lhasa Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:22:02 +0000 http://roam.autarken.net/2007/10/16/chanting-monks-in-shigatse/#comment-14 [...] This morning we woke up for an early breakfast before visiting the monastery in Gyantse and then piling back into the Land Rovers for a quick 2 hour drive to Shigatse where we are now.  Shigatse is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second most holy Lama after the Dalai Lama and the highest Lama currently since the Dalai Lama is in exile… still the current Panchen Lama resides in Beijing and was chosen by the Chinese government.  This is the second largest city in Tibet after Lhasa and has another huge monastery that we visited today.  Many of these monasteries appear the same with series of chapels and paintings and statues and stupas, but each one has its own significance and each has different valuable possessions that have survived the cultural revolution.  Today we learned that many of these things were saved by hiding them in chapels behinds bags of barley so they would not be recognized.  At the end of the tour today I was able to get a recording of some of the monks chanting. [...] [...] This morning we woke up for an early breakfast before visiting the monastery in Gyantse and then piling back into the Land Rovers for a quick 2 hour drive to Shigatse where we are now.  Shigatse is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second most holy Lama after the Dalai Lama and the highest Lama currently since the Dalai Lama is in exile… still the current Panchen Lama resides in Beijing and was chosen by the Chinese government.  This is the second largest city in Tibet after Lhasa and has another huge monastery that we visited today.  Many of these monasteries appear the same with series of chapels and paintings and statues and stupas, but each one has its own significance and each has different valuable possessions that have survived the cultural revolution.  Today we learned that many of these things were saved by hiding them in chapels behinds bags of barley so they would not be recognized.  At the end of the tour today I was able to get a recording of some of the monks chanting. [...]

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