China Cultural Chronicles June 18, 2012

• Kampung Pasunga, Anakalang, Sumba Barat, Indonesia

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• Jokhang

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• Chinese handmade silk embroidery art painting

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  Part of a top grade Chinese handmade silk embroidery art piece, the boys and whole background are all hand embroidered with fine and dense silk threads.
  
  Embroidery size: 90 x 65cm
  Frame size: 135 x 95cm
  Origin: China

• Superb weather scenery over Lake Manasarovar, Tibet

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  Like to see the pictures as LARGE as your screen? Just click on this Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157627765541022/s...
  
  Photo: the other side of the lake lays 23 km away and the Gang Ti Se Mountain range lays 40 km away.
  Manasarovar "Mapham Yutso" is the most venerated of all Tibet's many sacred lakes. It is especially sacred to Hindus, who have been walking round it for approaching 2,000 years. Buddhists associate the lake with Maya, Buddha's mother.
  
  Hindu and Buddhist cosmology had it that nearby Mt. Kailash "Gang Ti Se" is the centre of the world and that Manasarovar is the source of four of Asia's great rivers.
  
  There used to be eight monasteries around the lake, representing points of the Dharma wheel, until the destruction of the Cultural Revolution. Five of these have been rebuilt, in part at least. This has always been a poor, utterly remote area, inhabited by nomads and brigands, many months from the civilised world. The lake's monasteries are, as a result, basic affairs compared with the riches and beauty of the Tibetan heartlands, but no less moving for that.
  
  Manasarovar is said to be the world's highest freshwater lake. It lies on the high west Tibetan plateau, between the massif of Mt. Gurla Mandhata "Nemo Nanyi"(7,694m/25,300ft) and the many-named range which runs, for some 1,000km, parallel to the Himalayas, sacred Mt Kailash presiding in full pomp at its heart some 40 km to the north. It is separated by a strip of low hills from Rakshas Tal, the Demon Lake, it's cosmological opposite.
  www.walkopedia.net/walks/display-walk.asp?WalkID=68

• Forbidden City

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  紫禁城,中国北京。紫禁城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
  Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Forbidden City

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  紫禁城,中国北京。紫禁城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
  Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Forbidden City

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  紫禁城,中国北京。紫禁城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
  Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Forbidden City

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  紫禁城,中国北京。紫禁城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
  Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Forbidden City

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  紫禁城,中国北京。紫禁城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
  Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.