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I was looking for the singing bowl ( http://selians.blogspot.com/2007/03/singging-bowl.html ) and a good friend suggested the feng shui shop. And I did but a small bowls where priced at RM380.00. The I decided to buy when I visit Tibet or Nepal. But when I was in Rishikesh on OCT 07, a friend told me that I can get Tibetian things at Laxman Juala. There I found few shops ... I bought the singing bowl for RM70.00 and the other for RM25.00. I know I could have reduced further, but I just wanted to support the Tibetians. Both actually generate a sound vibration that sounds as "OM"! And it is beautiful sound and makes one feel relexed.

Guangzhou-Tibet railway to kick off in holiday week (Xinhua)Updated: 2006-10-01 09:44 http://www.tibetplus.com/news/activenews_view.asp?articleID=8 The new Guangzhou-Lhasa train service linking the South China metropolis with the capital city of southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region will go into commercial operation on October 2, the second day of the holiday week celebrating the National Day. The 4,980-kilometer journey will take 57 hours and 21 minutes. Sources with Guangzhou Railway Group said that three trains fitted with state-of-the art equipment will be used for the new service. Besides ventilation, water supply, electricity generation and central heating fittings, trains will carry oxygen supply and anti-frigidity equipment, the sources said. The trains, departing every other day, will have 15 carriages including two soft sleeping berth carriages, seven hard sleeping berth carriages, four hard seaters and one dining carriage. Each train can transport 863 people. Sichuan, Guangdo...

Extracted from : http://www.sacredland.org/world_sites_pages/MtKailash.html Revered by four Asian religions comprising millions of people, Tibet’s Mount Kailash is certainly one of the world’s most sacred places. Pilgrims of the Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Tibetan Bön faiths come to Kailash to complete ritual walks around the base of the mountain. But a half-century of Chinese rule has crippled religious and cultural expression in Tibet. After years of complete religious repression, during which thousands of monasteries were destroyed and pilgrimage was forbidden, Tibet now struggles with cultural dilution as Chinese immigrate to the region with the help of government incentives. Most recently, the Chinese government has stepped up efforts to make Kailash a tourist attraction, channeling money into building infrastructure in this remote region, but without regard for the sanctity of the place. According to the Dalai Lama: “Mount Kailash and its environs have a special symbolic value for ...