Panorama w/Prayer Cubicles
Before we get into all the detailed shots of the buildings and
surroundings, and shots my new friend and I took of each other, I want
to give a few more panoramas of the monastery. If you look closely in
this one, you’ll see little white dots or small white huts on the
mountain behind the big buildings with golden roofs. Dao tells me
that, at a certain time each year, certain religious folk (not sure if
this is monks, students, teachers, what) retire to these cubicles for
some period of time to pray and – I guess? – fast. Keep in mind that
our conversation happened entirely in Mandarin, which he describes as
his third language (after Tibetan and Southern Gansu dialect), and is
my fourth…so though we communicated, the nuance may not have been
conveyed quite right all the time. J
(so much world, so little time....) 
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