“they hail the holy month by this creeping ambulation,
murmuring an Om mani padme hum with
every bead that drips from their blackened fingers. Sometimes they chant longer
prayers, distressed or musical, flattening their palms together in still
graceful supplication, or twirl hand-held wheels.”
Thubron C. To a mountain in Tibet. Harper Perennial, NY,
2011.
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