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PILGRIMS - BECOMING THE PATH ITSELF
Photographs by Lena Herzog with an essay by Werner Herzog
Lena Herzog was born and raised in Siberia and studied linguistics at the University of Saint Petersburg before moving to the USA, where she graduated with a degree in philosophy from Mills College, California.
Arcperiplus presents an album of 146 colour photographs by Lena Herzog, with an essay by Werner Herzog. PILGRIMS covers two events of great significance in the Buddhist calendar.
The Kalachakra ceremony was scheduled to take place in Bodhgaya, India, in January 2002.
Although the ritual was cancelled, half a million pilgrims from all over the world descended on the village to pray. Several months later, in the middle of May, a Sakadawa festival took place near Mount Kailash in Western Tibet. It marked the anniversary of Buddha’s birth and death on the same date in the year of the Horse.
As 2002 is also a year of the Horse, the May 2002 festival was especially auspicious. A three-day pilgrimage around the mountain followed the festival. Tens of thousands: young, old, sick and healthy, walked by day amidst rock, sand and snow and slept by night in the open.
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