Tibetans walking on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau taught me the power of faith.

Faith is one of the many forces on which human beings depend. Without it, it means collapse. William James

Faith is necessary for a person's life. Only when you have faith can you pursue your direction and get happiness, while people who don't believe in anything are prone to negative despair and will not get happiness.

Everyone should have their own beliefs and take action for them. If you can't find faith, you can take a walk in Tibetan areas. Tibetans' persistence in faith is awe-inspiring. They unconsciously strengthen their faith and don't think about it.

There are many ways for Tibetans to express their beliefs, but they all convey their hopes for the future and their enthusiasm for life.

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Shenshan holy lake is proficient

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, most people believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and they are reincarnated, and good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. Therefore, in life, people will always have the experience of going over mountains and lakes and turning the warp wheel several times. This is already a part of Tibetan traditional culture.

Turning mountains refers to turning mountains into gods, generally Meili Snow Mountain, Gangrenboqi, Anima Castle Peak and Gaduojuevo. People believe that these mountains have gods. Turning mountains can wash away the sins of a lifetime, turning mountains ten times can avoid the suffering of hell, and turning mountains a hundred times can become Buddha and ascend to heaven. Especially in the Tibetan Year of the Horse, there will be a large number of believers going up the mountain, because this year is the year when Sakyamuni was born, and one turn of the mountain is equivalent to thirteen turns.

Some people may think it is not difficult. In fact, it is to ask for a change of mountains. You need to walk or kowtow 57 kilometers halfway up the mountain at an altitude of 4800-5723 meters. Altitude sickness is the first difficulty that people have to overcome, as well as cold weather and accommodation problems along the way. It takes two or three days for the average person to complete a lap.

The same is true for turning the lake to the warp tube. People hope to accumulate virtue and eliminate disasters through this kind of practice. In addition, some people turned to Mani Stone Piles and temples for help. However, no matter which road, it is full of hardships and difficulties, and only people with firm beliefs can go on.

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Manitoba prayer flags

Walking on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, even in barren land, you can often see large or small prayer flags and flowers. This is a way for Tibetans to pray for happiness.

The prayer flags are made of flags printed with scriptures. The colors of the national flag are blue, white, red, green and yellow, and each color represents a different meaning. After people write scriptures and draw pictures of birds and animals on the cloth, they sew the cloth on a long rope in sequence, which is the most common prayer flag.

There is also a kind of prayer flag, which is a long and narrow strip of cloth, usually 3 -5 meters long, white or red in color and sewn on the warp beam. The prayer flags are also full of scriptures.

These two kinds of prayer flags can be seen everywhere in Tibetan residents' homes, temples' squares and mountains.

Mani stone is another way for people to pray for disaster relief, similar to prayer flags.

People use colorful pigments, usually five colors, to carve six-character mantras, eye-catching, idols, auspicious patterns and so on. On the stone, and put it on the river, lake, roadside, intersection to pray for blessing, accumulate virtue and suppress evil.

If there are already Mani stones nearby, people will pile the new Mani stones with the existing Mani stones, and over time, a Mani stone pile will be formed, that is, the A Duo Gang.

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Mountain deity Buddha

In the process of cultural exchange and integration between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Central Plains, a way of blessing similar to that of the Central Plains has also been formed, that is, drinking alcohol to worship the gods. But the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau worships mountain gods and monks and buddhas.

On important festivals, people will climb mountains, simmer a pile of mulberry fire, pour highland barley wine and offer Hada, silently telling their wishes to the mountain god, hoping to get his blessing.

In addition, Tibetan residents usually have a giant Buddha at home, and people usually put highland barley wine and tributes. This is a way for them to express their faith and pray for good luck.

There is always an inexplicable power in people with faith, which supports them to go through one hurdle after another, and at the same time is bound by faith and will not get lost in material desires. Therefore, people always have a belief, do not go with the flow, do not indulge.