The tibetan Kora

The tibetan Kora is the walking circumambulation around the sacred sites of Buddhism, such as the temples and the stupas which are all over the place. They are surrounded in a silent meditation by the devotees, who spin their prayer wheels or recite mantras to the cadence of the 108 beads from their malas, the bead necklace which helps them to stay focused. The circuit should be made several times, always clockwise. The series shows the Kora in Lhasa, the historical capital city and center of the pilgrimage. The circuit is in the backstreets surrounding Jokhang temple, the most worshiped, the one visited by hundreds of devotees with different ethnicities in their traditional apparels. They pass through the smoke of juniper branches which comes out of two incense ovens in front of the entrance. Images of the faith of a people that goes on with the millenary Buddhist practices, looking at their internal world, which is deeper than the ephemeral and illusory external world