The longest Mani stone wall of the world located in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

July,27 2016 BY Master Catherine Jigme 0 COMMENTS

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the Bage Mani Stone Wall consists of rows of piled-up Mani stones, engraved or painted with Tibetan Buddhism sayings

Located in Sershul (or Shiqu) County, northwest Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Bage Mani Stone Wall consists of rows of piled-up Mani stones, engraved or painted with Tibetan Buddhism sayings.

an old women in front of the Mani stone wall

The steward of the Management Committee, the Bage Mani Stone Wall is almost comparable with the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa in Tibetans' hearts. "Given the way to Lhasa is too far away and weary, worshipping this site is believed to have the same religious meaning," said Dorje, adding that hundreds of pilgrims would come to pay homage from 4 o'clock in the morning to 8 in the evening.

the steward of the Management Committee, the Bage Mani Stone Wall is almost comparable with the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa in Tibetans' hearts.

Since Sangye Phuntsok the first Bage Rinpoche laid the first Mani stone on the Tashikhar grassland in 1671, countless pilgrims around the country have visited and added holy stones to the site. The result is a wall that stretches 1.75 kilometers in length and stands about 3.5 meters high, embedded with more than 3,000 stone statues and over 6,000 Buddhist scriptures including Kangyur and Tangyur.

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