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  • Zafus (meditation cushions) at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan.Sitting Zen (or Zazen) is at the heart of Buddhist practice in Japan..In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori)
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  • A Zen monk of the Soto School cleans the meditation hall in the traditional manner at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan.Sitting Zen (or Zazen) is at the heart of Buddhist practice in Japan..In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori). 'Sammu' or work is a practice of 'moving Zen': a mindless repetition of activity that frees the mind.
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  • Two Buddhist monks walk in the grounds of the Seiryu-ji Temple after meditation.<br />
In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori)
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  • Zen monks of the Soto School meditate at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan.Sitting Zen (or Zazen) is at the heart of Buddhist practice in Japan..In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori)
    SFE_020803_0047.jpg
  • A Zen monk of the Soto School meditates  at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan.Sitting Zen (or Zazen) is at the heart of Buddhist practice in Japan..In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori)
    SFE_020803_0045.jpg
  • Detail of a sand garden at the Ginkakuji Temple Kyoto Japan.Ginkaku-ji, known as the "Temple of the Silver Pavilion," is a Buddhist temple in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. The official name is Jish?ç-ji ( "Temple of Shining Mercy"). It was built in 1474 by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who sought to emulate the golden Kinkaku-ji commissioned by his grandfather Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. The temple is part of the Shokoku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen.
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  • A Zen monk meditates before a rock garden..Sitting Zen (or Zazen) is at the heart of Buddhist practice in Japan..In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience insight into the nature of existence and thereby gain enlightenment (satori)
    SFE_020803_0043.jpg
  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In front of the couple is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. Their retreat centre is a Victorian house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
    buddhist_retreat70-27-06-2010_1.jpg
  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In the middle on a polished parkay floor is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
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  • A Zen monk of the Soto School rakes a sand garden as part of meditative practice at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan.
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  • Sikh pilgrim in prayer and meditation at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India
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  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa sit in the lotus position meditating in protest in central London, UK. Their protest is concerning the alleged improsonment / torture and organ harvesting of fellow members in mainland China. They claim that tens of thousands of fellow practitioners are being held unlawfully in Chinese prisons. www.falundafa.org.tw
    20130810_falun gong protest_E.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa sit in the lotus position meditating in protest in central London, UK. Their protest is concerning the alleged improsonment / torture and organ harvesting of fellow members in mainland China. They claim that tens of thousands of fellow practitioners are being held unlawfully in Chinese prisons. www.falundafa.org.tw
    20130810_falun gong protest_A.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa sit in the lotus position meditating in protest in central London, UK. Their protest is concerning the alleged improsonment / torture and organ harvesting of fellow members in mainland China. They claim that tens of thousands of fellow practitioners are being held unlawfully in Chinese prisons. www.falundafa.org.tw
    20130810_falun gong protest_B.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa sit in the lotus position meditating in protest in central London, UK. Their protest is concerning the alleged improsonment / torture and organ harvesting of fellow members in mainland China. They claim that tens of thousands of fellow practitioners are being held unlawfully in Chinese prisons. www.falundafa.org.tw
    20130810_falun gong protest_C.jpg
  • Laurence Freeman, Benedictine monk leads an interfaith meditation session at The World Community for Christian Meditation Centre, London where he is the director.<br />
He is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto and an author of several books, he has conducted dialogues and peace initiatives such as the historic Way of Peace with the Dalai Lama and is active in inter-religious dialogue with other faiths.
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  • Monks practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditate with dorje bells in the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. They are a western visitors, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007. Dorje is a common male name in Tibet and Bhutan. Dorje can also refer to a small sceptre held in the right hand by Tibetan lamas during religious ceremonies.
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  • A nun practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditates in silence at a shrine. Seen in almost silhouette, the young woman engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. She is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
    samye_ling_buddhism02-16-07-1997.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa sit in the lotus position meditating in protest in central London, UK. Their protest is concerning the alleged improsonment / torture and organ harvesting of fellow members in mainland China. They claim that tens of thousands of fellow practitioners are being held unlawfully in Chinese prisons. www.falundafa.org.tw
    20130810_falun gong protest_D.jpg
  • People out meditating and applying social distancing in Canon Hill Park as Coronavirus is felt on a local level on 12th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. People here, in what is normally an incredibly busy urban park are mainly abiding the stay at home message, and those out exercising are doing so with care. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • Time for meditation. Every day at 6pm the children meditate, run by care taker Pria. After meditation the children sing the National Anthem and take turn in performing for each other.<br />
The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabilitation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the children are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abilities.
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  • Time for meditation. Every day at 6pm the children meditate, run by care taker Pria. Susmita and the all the children in deep meditation.<br />
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The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabilitation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the children are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abilities.
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  • Falun Gong Meditation protest in Chinatown against persecution in China on 26th January 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Chinese Communist Party has claimed Falun Gong is a menace to society - a superstitious, foreign-driven, tightly organised, dangerous group of meditators and has persecuted its members.
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  • Falun Gong Meditation protest in Chinatown against persecution in China on 26th January 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Chinese Communist Party has claimed Falun Gong is a menace to society - a superstitious, foreign-driven, tightly organised, dangerous group of meditators and has persecuted its members.
    _E6A2354.jpg
  • Falun Gong Meditation protest in Chinatown against persecution in China on 26th January 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Chinese Communist Party has claimed Falun Gong is a menace to society - a superstitious, foreign-driven, tightly organised, dangerous group of meditators and has persecuted its members.
    _E6A2361.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestA.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa meditating on Gerrard Street in central London, UK. Falun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20151212_falun gong_B.jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_011.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_010.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_007.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_006.jpg
  • Meditating protesters at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 3rd September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200903_extinction rebellion_027.jpg
  • Meditating protesters at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 3rd September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200903_extinction rebellion_028.jpg
  • A man meditates at dawn in the Bara Gumbad tomb in Lodi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
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  • A Zen monk of the Soto School performs 'gassho' (salutation) during meditation at the Seiryu-ji Temple in Hikone City, Japan
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  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-03-23-03-2020.jpg
  • Time for meditation. Every day at 6pm the children meditate, run by care taker Pria.<br />
<br />
The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabilitation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the children are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abilities.
    IMG_4871_1.jpg
  • Five golden Buddhist statues covered with traditional orange robes in Vajrasana kneeling meditation position on a wall covered with traditional orange robes in Wat Banan, Battambang region, Cambodia, South East Asia.
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  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestD.jpg
  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestB.jpg
  • Members of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa meditating on Gerrard Street in central London, UK. Falun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20151212_falun gong_A.jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion block the streets while meditating at Bank in the heart of the City of London financial district on 14th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20191014_extinction rebellion bank_0...jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_009.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_008.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_004.jpg
  • Protesters meditating at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 4th September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200904_extinction rebellion_005.jpg
  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-05-23-03-2020.jpg
  • After a weekend of large numbers of Britons leaving London for holiday resorts and coastal beauty spots, and crowding into the capitals parks, the UK government is considering further restrictions of movement in public places to help social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some public green spaces have been closed by their own local authority but most, such as Ruskin Park in south London, are still open. Kerry is a local musician and broadcaster and sits meditating under a tree listening to music ideas for her podcast, on 23rd March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-02-23-03-2020.jpg
  • Woman meditating in the afternoon sun in Waterlow park during the Coronavirus pandemic on 27th March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Social distancing measures like this are steps taken to reduce social interaction between people to help reduce the transmission of coronavirus COVID-19.
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  • Falun Gong permanent protest opposite the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place, London.Peacefully protest in meditation 24/7 since 2002. A very spiritual demonstration against an oppressive regime. Flun gong claim the following: On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong. Over the last nine years, 3,168 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives, many tortured to death; 75 of them were people in their eighties, and the youngest was only 8 months old. Thousands of practitioners are currently jailed and being tortured in forced labour camps, detention centres and prisons. The CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
    20100522falun gong protestC.jpg
  • Meditating protesters beneath the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Extinction Rebellion demonstration on 3rd September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. With government resitting after summer recess, the climate action group has organised two weeks of events, protest and disruption across the capital. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20200903_extinction rebellion_029.jpg
  • Time for meditation. Every day at 6pm the children meditate, run by care taker Pria.<br />
The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabilitation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the children are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abilities.
    IMG_4876_1.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion meditation during disruption across 5 UK cities calling on Government to ACT NOW outside the Royal Courts of Justice after it was announced last week that more than 1,000 activists who participated in previous demonstrations were facing prosecution, on 15th July 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20190715_extinction rebellion_035.jpg
  • Buddhist environmental activists meditate and protest about Climate Change during the blockade at the junction at Bank in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
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  • Buddhist environmental activists meditate and protest about Climate Change during the blockade at the junction at Bank in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -14-14-10-2019.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion meditation during disruption across 5 UK cities calling on Government to ACT NOW outside the Royal Courts of Justice after it was announced last week that more than 1,000 activists who participated in previous demonstrations were facing prosecution, on 15th July 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
    20190715_extinction rebellion_008.jpg
  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Michelle Dean is a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism and chants her Puja, or prayer in the privacy of her own home, a bed sit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having studied her Buddhism at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Michelle now lives within the larger society rather than the more closed but free community of Samye Ling where many people disaffected with western life or whom have experienced troubled times and sometimes escaping a criminal past, arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
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  • Bending forward as a mark of humility and respect for his deity, a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism adjusts a prayer bowl in front of an effigy of Buddha at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes and many here have had a troubled youth, sometimes escaping a criminal past so arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
    uk_buddhism01-16-07-1997_1_1.jpg
  • Usually played in pairs for morning and evenings calls to prayer, preludes, and processions, two western nuns following Tibetan-Buddhism play their Rag-Dung (brass trumpets) in a garden at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. One nun looks across to check finger positions of her fellow-player and they are sat cross-legged on the lush grass surrounded with flowers and tall plants. The Rag-Dung is the most spectacular of Tibetan ritual copper horns and some are up to twenty feet long. With a deeply resonant sound it is relatively easy to play. Those following this branch of Buddhism arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
    samye_ling_horns07-16-1997.jpg
  • Surrounded by books and holy relics, a monk follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, prays in a caravan adapted to become a woodland home in the woodland near the Centre. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • The Buddha seen as part of a shrine in the prayer room of Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. A Buddhist shrine provides a focal point for Buddhists when they are meditating, practising puja (worship) and for gatherings of Buddhists studying together. Shrines can vary from a small, simple shrine in the home or garden of a Buddhist, through to the large, ornate shrines or temples found across the globe. At the Samye Ling monastery, most visitors are westerners in this peaceful location for spiritual cleansing and often to find answers to their complicated, modern lives. And many here have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation.
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  • A follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, is adorned with tattoos and has his head shaven. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Buddhist priest in Lung Shang Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • A Sikh devotee / pilgrim in prayer shortly after having bathed in the amritsagar, the water surrounding the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India
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  • The Golden Temple at night. Sikhism's holiest of "Gudwaras", places of worship, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
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  • A golden reclining Buddha statue in the sunlight in a Killing Cave of Phnom Sampeau in Battambang region, Cambodia, South East Asia. The lying Buddha represents his last illness, about to enter the parinirvana after death. Many victims were killed and thrown into these caves during the Khmer Rouge in 1970s. A Cambodian man sits in front of the statue making wrist band souvenirs.
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  • Extinction Rebellion climate camp at Vauxhall is cleared on 15th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monks collect drinking water from a well inside the monastic complex of Atsog Monastery, deep inside rural Xinghai County, Qinghai province, China
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  • Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu,  every morning after having spent time in the main Prayer Hall inside the moanatery  will head to the prayer wheels and spin them, each full turn will represent one iteration of the chants  he has conducted within the  300 years old walls of Atsog Monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu, reads  the Buddha's teachings under the watchful smile of the  present Dalai Lama in his small but well equiped and furnished living space  comprising of a living room / bedroom and a small wood fired kitchen, within the  300 years old walls of Atsog Monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu, reading the Buddha's teachings in his small but well equiped and furnished living space  comprising of a living room / bedroom and a small wood fired kitchen, within the  300 years old walls of Atsog Monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China.
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  • A Sikh pilgrim sits in silence and reflection  at the edge of the Amritsagar, the pond that surrounds the Golden Temple, Sikhisms' holiest of "Gudwaras", Amritsar, Punjab, India
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  • The Golden Temple at dawn Sikhism's holliest of "Gudwaras", places of worship, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
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  • Pilgrims enter the gates of the Golden Temple at night. Sikhism's holiest of "Gudwaras", places of worship, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
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  • The Golden Temple at night. Sikhism's holiest of "Gudwaras", places of worship, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
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  • A golden reclining Buddha statue in the sunlight in a Killing Cave of Phnom Sampeau in Battambang region, Cambodia, South East Asia.  Next to the statue is a shrine containing skulls and bones from some of the victims who were killed thrown into these caves during the Khmer Rouge in 1970s. A Cambodian man sits in front of the statue making wrist band souvenirs.
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  • Climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group do breathing exercises at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 23rd April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
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  • Climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group do breathing exercises at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 23rd April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190423_extinction rebellion_B_002.jpg
  • Climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group do breathing exercises at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 23rd April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
    20190423_extinction rebellion_A_011.jpg
  • Climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group do breathing exercises at Parliament Square in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 23rd April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests.
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  • A man practices yoga on the private traffic greens at Aerocity near Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi, India
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  • Two tourists look at The Benker Schirmer Tapestry, the retroquire, Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. in Chichester Cathederal
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  • A Ethiopian priest at the cave monestery of Yimrehane Kristos near Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum, and is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • A female Kyodo practitioner at the Kyoto dojo.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • An elderly Kyodo practitioner draws his bow, Kyoto dojo.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • A target full of arrows.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • Decorated bows lined up at the Nakagawa dojo..Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • A detail of a Kyudo practitioner's traditional costume..Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • Murata Takeshi and Fujita Takehiro in traditional Kyudo costume stand at the Nashinoki Jinja Shrine. .Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • Practitioners line up at the Kyoto Budo Centre dojo.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • Chibata Kanjuro, whose family has been making bows since the 15th century, bends the bamboo frame of a new bow in his workshop in Kyoto, Japan..
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  • Two female Kyodo practitioners at the dojo (practice hall) in Kyoto.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • The Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery on the 10th November 2018 in Eskdalemuir, Scotland in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1967 and located near Langholm in a peaceful valley on the banks of the river Esk, the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school.
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  • The Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery on the 10th November 2018 in Eskdalemuir, Scotland in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1967 and located near Langholm in a peaceful valley on the banks of the river Esk, the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school.
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