Medicine Buddha & Smoke Offering

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Miorita
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Medicine Buddha & Smoke Offering

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Offered now by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche & GBI Lamas:



Right now, beautiful views of a monastery place up in the mountains suspended in between the sky and the valley below.
They play the long instruments...

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Re: Medicine Buddha & Smoke Offering

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The temple is the largest monastery of Tibetan Buddhism and Baijiao. It is located in Bamai Village, Baizha Township, Nangqian County, Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai Province, which is bordered by Tibet. The temple is set on a cliff at an altitude of 3,700 meters, which can be called the Tibetan Buddhist version of "Hanging Temple". The temple has a history of nearly 1,000 years, and legend has it that the master of lotus peanuts practiced in this town more than 700 years ago. The treasure of the temple is a strange pair of prayer wheels, and it is said that the dowry brought by Princess Wencheng into Tibet to marry Songzan Ganbu. In this long time, the pair of prayer wheels placed in the upper temple of the Ja'er Temple, and the lamas are constantly on duty day and night. The endless prayer wheels are accompanied by the Tibetans in the depths of the plateau to spend the autumn and rain...
https://www.trip.com/travel-guide/attra ... mple-88428

Defining for the lineage are "dri" that are these:

Image

For the first image, one is not really necessary to have because it's what is well described in the practice books.
The monks beat the drums in a circle and the rocks jump "alley-hoop" out of their pants and onto the mountain.

Glad I could assist!
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