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Namcha Barwa mountain is one holy mountain located near the Yarlung Tsanpo River Big bend. The best spot to view this stunning mountain is at Zhi bai village

Yarchen Gar the Jo Mu Island, here “Jo Mu” means “Nuns”. The location of Yarchen Ga is not really an island, the river curves heading southeast and joining Yarlung river near Nyarong county. At where the Yarchen located, it form a piece of land a Peninsula like;

Yarchen Gar is about 95km west from Kanze (Garze county). It is also Nyingma Pa tradition, specially a acedemy for nuns

“Heping Fahui Nunnery” is one name we recently received. But this is NOT a correct name of nunnery, “He Ping” means “Peaceful”; “Fa Hui” means Pujia. Those are 4 Chinese words in Pin Yin. When to put this 4 words together, it means “Peaceful Pujia”. so it is not a name of nunnery, but a name of Tibetan Religious activity.

This “Peaceful Pujia” was started from October 1999. The sites are included: Peaceful Tashi Falun Zha-Cang; Peaceful Buddhist Academy, Peaceful Tibetan hospital, Peaceful Rainbow Celestial Burial, Peaceful Mani Pile Wall, Peaceful Nursing home and Peaceful Primary School. Those sites are all located in Ge Ri Ma village which is some 10 km northwest from Tagong by road or 2-3 hours crossing through the Tagong Grassland by hike. Some people call this nunnery is “Ani Gompa“, which is not verified

Schedule of Peaceful Pujia (Heping Fahui)

The below listed date are all according to Tibetan calendar, please contact us to check exact date on Gregorian calendar. Tibetan Calendar is updated in December each year.

• Winter Pujia: From 1^st of 10^th month to the next 15^th of 1^st month
• Salvation Pujia: From 25^th of the 2^nd month to 30^th of 3^rdmonth
• Own-relief suffer Puja: From 1^st to 30^th of 4^thmonth
• Summer Pujia: From 5^th month to 30^th of 6^thmonth. This is the largest one. There are usually more than 30,000 people participating this great pujia
• Tibetan Play: From 1^st to 15^th of 8^thmonth

For the moment, Tashi Nunnery is the official name of this sites

Peaceful Pujia

Location of Tashi monastery and the location where the Peaceful Pujia (Heping Fahui) is held

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Puma Yumtso lake is also called Puma Yumco lake. It is one large Freshwater lake that located in Lhozhag (Lodrak) county, approximately 220 km south from Lhasa. There is one argument about its altitude, 4980 meter, 5010 meter, and 5030 meter. According to the altimeter that we carry, its altitude is 4735 meters. So this is a new altitude; Anyway, this is one lake with great nature view and being of the 4 holy lakes of Tibet, the other three are: Yamdrok lake, Namtso Lake and Marnasaovar Lake in west Tibet

Yading is a Tibetan village, located in Daocheng county. Some say that Yading is last pure land on our blue planet, however, it is quite stunning with its nature view. The journey to this site was diffulct. Ever since the Daocheng airport accomplished in 2013, thenthe journey to this isolated spot becomes much easier

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Tibetan prayer wheels (called “Mani wheels” by the Tibetans) are devices for spreading blessings and well being. Rolls of thin paper, imprinted with many copies of the mantra (prayer) Om Ma ni Pad me Hum wound around an axle in a protective container and spun around repeatedly. Typically, larger decorative versions of the syllables of the mantra are also carved on the outside of the wheel. Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying this mantra, out loud or silently to yourself invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion.

Looking at a written copy of the mantra is said to have the same effect and the mantra is carved into stones left in piles near paths where travelers will see them. Spinning the written form of the mantra around a Mani wheel is also supposed to have the same effect, the more copies of the mantra, the more the benefit is.

Mani wheels are found throughout Tibet and in areas influenced by Tibetan culture. There are many types of Mani wheels, small hand-held wheels which are the most common by far. Tibetan people carry them for hours, and even on long pilgrimages, spinning them any time their hand is free.

Larger wheels are placed where they can spin by wind, by water or hand, they contain a myriad copies of mantra, and may also contain sacred texts, totaling at up to hundreds of volumes and always spin clockwise.

Chenrezig is renowned as the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon of enlightened beings. Avalokiteshvara is the earthly manifestation of the self born, eternal Buddha, Amitabha, also known as Kuan Yin or Guan Yin in Chinese. She is the embodiment of compassionate loving kindness. As the Bodhisattva of Compassion, She hears the cries of all beings.

“Om ma ni pad me hum” is the Sanskrit mantra associated with the four-armed Avalokiteshvara, whom is also called Chenrezig in Tibetan, and “Guan Yin” in chinese. Please view the first Icon at section “Lords of The Three Enlightened Families” of Tibetan Buddhism Iconographic Guide.

“Om” is to be found in Indian religions.
“Ma ni” means “jewel” or “bead”
“Pad me” means the “lotus flower”, the Buddhist sacred flower,
“Hum” means the spirit of enlightenment.

Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra “Om Ma ni Pad me Hum” out loud or silently to oneself will invoke the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion.

In use, this 6 words are commonly carved onto rocks or written on paper which is inserted into “Prayer Wheels”, which effects the same as reciting the mantra as many times as when an individual spins the wheel.