by mahaadmin_34 | Jul 7, 2025 | zarándoklatok
Parinirvana Stupa is a Buddhist temple in Kushinagar, India which is said to be the death place of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The present temple was built by the Indian Government in 1956 as part of the commemoration of the 2,500th year of the Mahaparinivana or 2500 BE (Buddhist Era)...
by mahaadmin_34 | Jul 7, 2025 | zarándoklatok
Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there. The site is now being developed as a Buddhist pilgrimage centre...
by mahaadmin_34 | Jul 7, 2025 | zarándoklatok
Homecoming from Darchen, Western Tibet...
On the evening of July 27th, we had a farewell dinner with Kalsang and his younger brother Zhaian, I don't eat meat, but sometimes I do... now there was yak meat on the table. We toasted with honey ginger tea... I didn't see alcohol anywhere around Kailash, but it wasn't missing either...
by mahaadmin_34 | Jul 7, 2025 | zarándoklatok
You would think that if I had already done the 6th ascent, the 7th ascent would be easy... but that's not true. This 7th ascent was the hardest. I wasn't short of breath but somehow I had a hard time moving...
I've never seen so many pilgrims before, there were a lot of Tibetans on the way around the mountain, few Chinese, Indians...
by mahaadmin_34 | Jul 7, 2025 | zarándoklatok
I left Darchen at 6 am and this was probably the hardest start. My mountain guide was in the hospital on an IV due to a severe cold... I could hear a rattling sound coming from my lungs when I was breathing... but that's a good thing because I've had a dry cough and pressure...
