Day 59
Timer on…
Alright…I just finished the second time of (hopefully) three times today to catch up…
I took a break from making my lecture on Italian Renaissance theater and I had a headache, but…it’s gone now…this series is a headache curer…so…if you’re not mourning someone…you can just use this to cure headaches…I gues it has all of the chakras that alleviate headaches and many of the asanas are also poses that help headaches…there’s probably a good metaphor here somewhere about how my mourning is really all in my head and I just need to cure my headache…but…that’s too simplistic…so I’m not going there…
I also just noticed that I have 38,661 words written for this blog already…and 93 pages…that’s a lot…I realize I copied and pasted, periodically, but…it’s good to know that I can write for only fifteen minutes a day and have 93 pages…
Alright, back to the peace flags…
“…During the Cultural Revolution, prayer flags were discouraged but not entirely eliminated. Many traditional designs may have been lost. Currently, different styles of prayer flags can be seen all across the Tibetan region.”
Lung ta styles: “There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta (Wylie: rlung-rtu, meaning “Wind Horse”) in Tibetan, and vertical ones, called Darchor (Wylie: dar-lcog, meaning “flagstaff”)…Lung ta (horizontal) prayer flags are of square or rectangular shape, and are connected along their top edges to a long string or thread. They are commonly hung on a diagonal line from high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in high places such as the tops of temples, monasteries, stupas, and mountain passes.”
Color and order: “Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five: one in each of five colors. The five colors colors are arranged from left to right in a specific order: blue, white, red, green, and yellow. The five colors represent the five elements and the Five Pure Lights. Different elements are associated with different colors for specific traditions, purposes and sadhana. Blue symbolizes the sky and space, white symbolized the air and wind, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth. According to Traditional Tibetan medicine, health and harmony are produced through the balance of the five elements.”
That’s all for now…more later…
Timer on…
Alright…I just finished the second time of (hopefully) three times today to catch up…
I took a break from making my lecture on Italian Renaissance theater and I had a headache, but…it’s gone now…this series is a headache curer…so…if you’re not mourning someone…you can just use this to cure headaches…I gues it has all of the chakras that alleviate headaches and many of the asanas are also poses that help headaches…there’s probably a good metaphor here somewhere about how my mourning is really all in my head and I just need to cure my headache…but…that’s too simplistic…so I’m not going there…
I also just noticed that I have 38,661 words written for this blog already…and 93 pages…that’s a lot…I realize I copied and pasted, periodically, but…it’s good to know that I can write for only fifteen minutes a day and have 93 pages…
Alright, back to the peace flags…
“…During the Cultural Revolution, prayer flags were discouraged but not entirely eliminated. Many traditional designs may have been lost. Currently, different styles of prayer flags can be seen all across the Tibetan region.”
Lung ta styles: “There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta (Wylie: rlung-rtu, meaning “Wind Horse”) in Tibetan, and vertical ones, called Darchor (Wylie: dar-lcog, meaning “flagstaff”)…Lung ta (horizontal) prayer flags are of square or rectangular shape, and are connected along their top edges to a long string or thread. They are commonly hung on a diagonal line from high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in high places such as the tops of temples, monasteries, stupas, and mountain passes.”
Color and order: “Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five: one in each of five colors. The five colors colors are arranged from left to right in a specific order: blue, white, red, green, and yellow. The five colors represent the five elements and the Five Pure Lights. Different elements are associated with different colors for specific traditions, purposes and sadhana. Blue symbolizes the sky and space, white symbolized the air and wind, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth. According to Traditional Tibetan medicine, health and harmony are produced through the balance of the five elements.”
That’s all for now…more later…
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