Speaking of Prayer Flags -- Pic.

Golly Uncle !

What a young idealistic pretty boy. No wonder women want you :D
 
Thanks for the cool picture! :)

Looks like an ad for something, or something:D
 
It's an ad for memories, Rob. All of us old geezers have them, but some of us were in too damn much of a hurry to stop and take pics along the way.

Thanks, Uncle.
 
Yep, lot of memories. Going to the temples to do puja and then lunch or dinner was a standard "date" for Yangdu and me.

The Tibetan goatskin jola I'm carrying (and always carried everywhere)was purchased from a Tibetan refugee who had a little pasal in Chetrapati. We became pals. He'd served in the Tibetan Army and fought the Chinese (unsuccessfully as everybody knows -- Seven Years in Tibet tells the story pretty well) when they invaded Tibet and took a round thru the neck which he proudly displayed. Good old guy. I used to stop and visit him when I was ratting the streets. He'd drink tea and I'd send out for a bottle or two of Iceberg beer and we'd sip our respective brews and solve the problems of the world. I can remember him like it was yesterday but I've forgotten his name. Details, details.
 
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Here's what they look like after months in the weather. The color and prayers have mostly gone to heaven. They're kind of spirit flags then.

I wonder if that skinny western dude ever found what he was looking for?

(Added in edit. I can't get the picture to post. Is there an error in my syntax? You can paste the url into a browser window to see the picure. omit the stuff in [] .)
 
Prayer flags on a frosty morning.

I have some hanging on the Titanic which have endured for 3 years. Can't really tell they are prayer flags anymore but you leave them until there is nothing left.

OM MANI.......
 
Howard,

I'm not positive, but I think the board won't recognize the parenthasis around the 3. When it sees that, it thinks smilie face :) .

If you can change the photo name, it might work. A wild guess, but maybe I'll be lucky today and it'll be a good one. ...
 
I'm not going to rename the picture, as then I would have to go back and modify webpages linking to it. If someone with picture posting priviliges wants to upload the photo to the board they are welcome to do so.

I think I had Bill beat in the skinniness department in those old days, just as I have him beat in the beer-belly department in the present. Give it up, Bill. You just can't win.

Here's a little on the mantra Bill was starting just as he finished typing.

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/meaning-of-om-mani-padme-hung.htm

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/om-mani-padme-hung.wav

I've spun the prayer wheels at Boudnath too. The prayer wheel is another type of automated prayer. Spin it and up the prayers go. I see there are digital prayer wheels now on the web. I always thought it would be neat to hook a prayer wheel up to a chain saw motor, and really send those prayers up. I'd wear my pendelton wool plaid shirt with suspenders, and come into the the temple revving the engine and belching 2-cycle smoke, blasting prayers in every direction ...

;)
 
Originally posted by Howard Wallace
Here's what they look like after months in the weather. The color and prayers have mostly gone to heaven. They're kind of spirit flags then.

(Added in edit. I can't get the picture to post. Is there an error in my syntax? You can paste the url into a browser window to see the picure. omit the stuff in [] .)
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Lots of us NDN's use prayer cloths as well. They;re just simply one or two inch cloths torn off longwise from the cloth you bought off the bolt.
The colors are red, white, black, yellow, blue, green, brown and purple.
One for each of the Seven Directions and one for Unelanvhi or more well known as the Great Mystery.
We have them on the altar in front of our Sweatlodge as well as inside.
The heat from the red hot rocks cause the prayer cloths inside the Lodge to move in all different directions then the water dribbled over the rocks makes them lose their color and you can't see anything with your eyes anymore except maybe for colored lights floating and sometimes darting around in the Lodge, but not everyone will necessarily see the colored lights. :)

I tried to get Howard's pic to come up, but like Howard didn't have any luck. I have found it usually takes small letters in the (img) (/img) to get images to come up, but it didn't work for me this time.
Italics use the little "i's" as well.
 
Thanks again, Bill.

There is something about the total silence with only the sound of the flags rippling in the wind that is quite magical.
 
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