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| Om Mani Padme Hum in Tibetan characters is carved on most stone offerings placed along the kora. Chanted and written it is the heart mantra of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, emanation of the Buddha of Compassion. |
Tsuglakhang Temple is the heart of the Tibetan diaspora, and circling that heart is the kora.
Strung out along forested ridges in this ex-hill station town, McLeod Ganj, home of the Tibetan government-in-exile, in no way resembles Tibet, but the old ways of Buddhist devotion are maintained. Clockwise circumambulation - or kora - around a revered site like the Tsuglakhang is a popular devotional practice that combines a daily constitutional with walking meditation.
