A photograph of a row of gold-coloured prayer wheels mounted on a low concrete wall with a wooden beam along the top, under a wide sky with cumulus clouds. Engraved script decorates the cylinders. Behind the wall stretch dry brown hills and open plains, with colourful prayer flags visible at the right edge. No people are visible in the scene. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a row of gold-coloured prayer wheels mounted on a low concrete wall with a wooden beam along the top, under a wide sky with cumulus clouds. Engraved script decorates the cylinders. Behind the wall stretch dry brown hills and open plains, with colourful prayer flags visible at the right edge. No people are visible in the scene.

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A photograph of a row of golden prayer wheels mounted along a low mud-plastered wall on a high arid plateau. The cylindrical brass wheels have embossed script and are fixed on wooden crossbeams, with colourful prayer flags visible at the left edge. Behind the wall stretch dry tan grassland and brown mountain ranges under a large sky of cumulus clouds and patches of blue. No people are visible.

August 07 2012

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Colourful Tibetan prayer flags in green, red, yellow, blue and pink with printed script snap in the wind across the top and bottom of the frame. Behind them stretches a wide, arid, yellow-brown plateau with a distant lake and a range of tawny mountains under a cloudy sky, with a faint road and small distant structures on the plain. No people are visible.

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A photograph of a rocky hillside covered with many flat stones carved and painted with Tibetan mani script in white and orange tones, with stone shrines or chortens in white in the background. Colourful prayer flags in yellow, green, red and blue stretch across a bright blue sky with white clouds over a high open landscape. No people are visible.

A windswept lakeshore landscape beneath a cloudy sky. Strings of multicoloured prayer flags in green, red, blue, yellow and white stretch diagonally across sandy ground on the right, tied to wooden poles. Beyond them lies a flat, grassy brown-green plain and a pale blue lake, with distant brown mountain ranges under heavy clouds. No people are visible.

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Wide high-altitude landscape under a heavy, layered sky of grey and white clouds with patches of blue. A dry, tan plain of sparse low scrub and scattered dark rocks stretches toward rounded brown hills on the horizon. No people, structures or ritual activity are visible.

A wide landscape photograph of a high-altitude plain beside a lake. Heavy layered cumulus clouds fill the upper sky, with darker storm clouds over distant brown and grey mountain ranges. A line of colourful prayer flags strung on a tall wooden pole stretches across the dry grassy ground in the foreground. Low scrub and sparse grass cover the arid terrain, and a small settlement with buildings sits near the water's edge. No people are visible.

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