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Om ist Bogen, der Pfeil ist Seele, Das Brahman ist des Pfeiles Ziel, Das soll man unentwegt treffen. |
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or at least something like it... |
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signs are simple, understandable and straight forward here. |
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there are buddhist, moslem christians and hindu living here. i was most interested to take pictures of buddhist stuff, here a temple. |
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buddhists praying in a temple in alutgama. |
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a monk changing a light bulb in the same temple, while his cellular phone rang peacefully on the altar. |
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people offering light, fruits and flowers in the temple. |
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people in sri lanka make a earnest face the same moment they see a camera. i think, mostly to be polite, and to show the gravity of the moment some respect. you really have to trick them if you want to take a picture of the friendly smile that has been there right before you took to the camera. |
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a graveyard. in the middle of a village, it looks like jungle. |
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this monk in a tiny woman's monastery made me a lucky bracelet. |
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when the tsunami devastated the coast 4 years ago, the lanka princess hotel, where i stayed, was spared because a
monk island with a buddhist monastery lies right before the shore and parted the wave. that is a proof that god likes my hotel better than the others! |
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one of the monks on the monk island. |
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and a baby monk in another monastery. |
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but back to real live... enjoying fruit cocktails on the hotel pool with claudia and felix. |
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on the way to nirvana you have to go through several stages... |
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a frog in the rain. |
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the monsoon rain started on the last days we were there. |
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food on the market. |
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fish on the market. |
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more fish on the market. |
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cat on the market. |
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beggar on the market. |
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worker on the market. |
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seller on the market (1). |
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seller on the market (2). |
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seller on the market (3). |
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a carver showing his work and his family. |
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cows walk around everywhere. the way i understood it, they are not holy, but they seem to be not so far from it, either. |
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central bus station in alutgama. |
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a boy running his kite. |
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a fisher showing me happily his pray. |
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moslem women have to go with full space suite on the beach. the men don't. |
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fisher men on the beach of beruwalla fixing their nets. |
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north of galle, a worker in a moonstone mine. they work in a 20 m deep tunnel, with candle light, and a old pump holding the water out. |
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washing the moonstone out. |
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we made a boat trip along the bentoto river, and some of the jungle. |
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warans are not always easy to see! this one is about as long as me. |
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i find a friend in every country i go. |