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Tibetan prayer flags on the Great WallPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 21, 2008 11:46 AM
 I had been walking for about eight hours and had not seen a soul, but whoever put the flags there had just departed, leaving the cloth flags you see here fluttering in the wind, and hundreds of paper prayer flags blowing around the battlements of the Wall. |
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Comments on Tibetan prayer flags on the Great Wall
A symbol of peach, why can't Han and Tibetans live together?
We Love Tibetan Culture, and we are trying to bring this culture and show it to the world.
I Love Lhasa, I think that is one of the most devine place on earth, that is a must-go place for me.
This is important, but I hate to see if a 8.y.o tintin something is ruling the place.
They are just typical Tibetan buddhism flags.
I think it don't mean anything, i.e. no mystical Tibet supporters there, if that's what you implied.
It only means that China do have a kind of religious freedom and we do have people in Beijing have buddhism faith, like those in Yonghe Gong， or Yonghe Lamasery.:-)
Julian:
Nothing is implied.
The wind speaks dharma. And to paraphrase the 6th Zen Patriarch Hui Neng, in Buddha-nature there is no East or West.
Very Unique and Supportive even within the hardline, not surprising.
Tell me China has no religious freedom.
are you sure they re really prayer flags?
look more like some ill-tasted work by the local tourist authority.