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ॐ “Prayers Released“ - by famous canadian artist / painter / photographer / traveler Allen Smutylo 👉 🦅 Ethnic world music by russian composer / multi-instrumentalist Bulat Gafarov 👉 🦅 @BulatGafarov 📜📷 “Wayfaring Stories“ by artist Allen Smutylo: Ladakh is a Tibetan Buddhist enclave, deep in the central Himalaya of Northern India. My first entry there, was a 300-kilometer trek in the summer of 2001. Over the following 9 years, I made multiple return treks, twice during the winter. One of my central interests was the isolated monastery life of the Tibetan Buddhist lamas. These holy men live in monasteries that on occasion cling like wasps’ nests to mountain cliffs - many are over 400 years old. Access to the more isolated gompas involves 4 or 5 days of climbing arduous foot trails over mountain-passes or in the winter, a dangerous frozen river trek. The renowned Russian composer a
