We arrive at Tagong with snow and the driver of a small bus that took us there in four hours has much to do because the wiper is out of service!
Near the great monastery, we find the smile of Sally, who runs his guesthouse dedicated to Western tourists: it is making efforts to adapt to their tastes and spares no pains to give advice and deliver services. In three minutes it will find us a car for the hamlet of Manijiago .
Manijiago is a monastery town located 10 km from Tagong. The church building is impressively large (100m by 40 by 20 meters high!). We can contemplate the whole building by climbing over a small mound. It consists of a stack of pyramidal Mani. The manis are flat stones (shale) decorated with a carved mantra. It is without doubt the monks and nuns who make the place burning and pilgrims and visitors only have to buy and Manis the file. The mantra is always the same: Om Mani Padme Hum ...
Pilgrims walk around the building, without end, reciting prayers, waving their personal prayer wheel or activating the giant windmills installed at the periphery of the building. This is the chora.
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