High adventure on the plateau
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High adventure on the plateau

China Daily  

Dondrubling Monastery is Yushu's largest holy building. That is, the high-altitude prefecture in Qinghai province hosts the world's largest collection of mani stones-an estimated 2.5 billion-some as small as pebbles, some as big as boulders. Pilgrims purchase stones carved with scriptures or sacred images and place them on the Seng-ze Gyanak Mani Wall. Pilgrims spin prayer wheels beneath prayer flags as they circle the prayer stones, which cover an area roughly the size of a city block. Yushu's magnitude 7.1 quake in 2010 scattered the mantras like the shards of a dropped porcelain vase.

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