Our little clinic is located next to a monastary, or Gompa, which is 5 minutes away from a tantric Hindu temple. The people in the village make their way, every morning starting about 6:30 to give and receive blessings to both. Women walk with plates of flowers--poinsettias and marigolds, incense, candles, dye powder and salt to take part in the blessings. The incense and candles get burnt, but the powder, flowers and salt are thrown and placed to color different parts of the temple.
What is even better though is that this is done not only at the gompa and temple, but all around the village so that seemingly random places are colored red and orange with dye and flowers, a rock here, a water spigot there.
The whole place is covered in the rubbish of blessing and thanks.
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