Bakhor, also known as Baghor is the oldest street in Lhasa. In the past, it was a circumambulation route “, a holy way” in the eyes of the Tibetans. There is also a shopping center with national. It is an old quarter with Tibetan characteristics of color. Properties in Tibet from the street and the ground is paved with slabs by the people, the preservation of the old image. In the street you can find good memories and experience of the mysterious “an arc of a” belief in the religion.☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
All the houses along the street are shops. All kinds of fantastic products show all aspects of life in Tibet. How: Thangkas, Buddha made of copper, mills, prayer wheels, butter lamps, prayer flags sutras, beads, sticks Tibetan, cypresses, etc. in the shops are in abundance, such as cushions, Pulu, aprons, bags, leather harnesses snuff bottle , steel, blankets Tibetan style, Tibetan style shoes, in the vicinity of knives, hats, Tibetan style, butter, butter, pots, wooden bowls, high levels of barley wine, tea, fresh milk, dairy wastes, air-dried beef and lamb, etc. All kinds of travel, cheap, but good, may the road of 1000 meters long.
Bakhor the street is a landscape in miniature of the people in Lhasa, Tibet, also. The ancient circumambulation route is always full of pilgrims from all sides. Some come along the road through the body along kowtows, some come with the truck. Some of them were monks, some of them are businessmen Kham. In a word, here you will find all the people to Tibet. Visit the different clothes and languages. Even the monks’ clothes as a function of different religions. Bakhor Street is the window to see Tibet, the silence speaks for itself, the history of Lhasa.
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History
Bakhor Street, is an around the Jokhang temple circumambulation. After Lamaism_ (Tibetan Buddhism), this means circumambulation around the foot of the Jokhang temple in a clockwise direction, as far as the cult of the bronze statue of Sakyamuni in the temple. One of the three most popular tours in Lhasa circumambulation. Moving tireless pilgrims every day shows us that the famous Lhasa.
Two more tours circumambulation carillon with him. One is the Linkohr (external circumambulation) around the old city, the area in which the Potala Palace, and the other is the mysterious “Rangkor” is the circumambulation corridor in the Jokhang Temple.
The three routes circumambulations testimony and maintain the basis of the Jokhang Temple. The temple is not only a palace, where the bronze statue of Buddha and holly article on offer, but also the reflection on the ideal of esoteric Buddhism in the world, the mandala. Now Bakhor Street includes a wider, even the quarter around the Jokhang Temple, the well-preserved old town.
Legend
Bakhor on the street, there is a place where the visitor should not miss: The Ngami Magyia restaurant. Most of the buildings in the street are white, yellow, with the exception of two floors, one in the southeastern corner of Barkor Street. This is the secret of the palace of the 6th Dalai Lama Cangyand Gyamco. There he wrote the famous poem at the top of high mountains in the east, “When the moon is bright pink, on top of a mountain in the east, the beautiful face of the girl is in my mind.” “Very young” in Tibetan means Magyia Ngami. Restaurant Magyia Ngami is a bar with a good taste of art. For the mural painting, photography and crafts are on the platform and the original edition of the works of Kafka and Eliot.
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1. Address: Paseo de la clockwise direction on the road Bakhor
2. Time: No walking on the street Bakhor too late. Daily 6 hours after the Bakhor the road to a market of fair trade, particularly the sale of small objects of everyday use. And there are many streets and roads along the street, you can relax in the dark to lose.
3. Used Items: For some reasons unknown, the location of the interview on the street Bakhor firmly believe that second-hand goods can be sold at high prices, it will be the new numbers in the same If you second-hand. In fact, it’s an opportunity to decide the value that is not a problem in terms of his sentence.
4. Negotiating directives: If you are on the road Bakhor, visitors should learn to work with the maintenance. The stability of the call is calculated differently for an item is normally in the ten-fold. Not the final decision before some shops. The quality of these products are very different, especially DZI beads of heaven.
5. Discounts: According to the old customs, the daily maintenance of the new Tibetan discount offered for the first and last customers. In addition, the holder of the cock after the money of the buyer in the property as a way, the God of wealth
