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CHINA-TIBET-50YEARS
Tibetan Buddhists spin prayer wheels at the Kumbum Monastery outside of Xining on March 8, 2009 in northwest China's Qinghai province, a vast region on the Tibetan plateau known as Amdo. Fifty years after fleeing Tibet, which borders Qinghai, the Dalai Lama is as far as ever from returning home, leaving him the spiritual leader of a people he never sees and the head of a stateless government with the harsh reality that his decades of campaigning have achieved little, in contrast to his status as one of the world's most admired men, greeted with near universal acclaim wherever his gruelling itinerary takes him. Known as Ta'er Si in Chinese, Kumbum is one of the six great monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, built on sacred ground in 1577 and birthplace of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Yellow Hat sect.
AFP PHOTO/ Frederic J. BROWN
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Xining, Qinghai, CHINA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Frederic J. BROWN |
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8 Martie 2009 |
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3499 x 2287 (1.3 MB) |
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