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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
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  • Prayer flags above the town and district center of Wangdi Phodrang. Buddhist prayers are imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles. The prayers are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family members. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Buddhist prayers imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. (Those seen here are in the Ura Valley, east central Bhutan). Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family member. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Terraced rice fields and prayer flags in the upper Paro Valley, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
    TIB_060621_478_xw.jpg
  • A Buddhist stupa above the Dingha Valley, Tibet.
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  • Prayer flags at the Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County.
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  • Buddhist prayer flags flutter over pedestrians crossing the Bumthang Chhu (river) on a frosty late winter morning in Jakar in Bumthang District, eastern central Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Jeeraporn Khuankaew's schoolmates line up outside on the athletic field each morning before class to observe the raising of the flag, the recitation of a prayer and to listen to the pricipal talk and talk. A few of the boys were singled out for having hair that was too long and they had their hair cropped very short on the spot. (From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions)
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Peter Menzel Photography

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