感慨记- 有志者，事尽成
The main motivation for my love of travelling, is to discover things that you will never read or hear about from others. Also, I get to see the majesty and beauty of the sights/attractions with my own eyes.
If I have never come to Tibet, I will never know that Tibet is soo culturally rich and colorful. But well, I have also realised that, any place or thing that is mysterious, yet reachable by me, is probably not so rustic or magical anymore.
Like the Angkor of Cambodia, I find it astonishing to see the extend, that the ancient people are motivated, to go about to spend the amount of money, effort and time, to build these architectural wonders. Some of these temples and shrines are built with stone slabs dragged over from the Himalayan Ranges. The construction of one of the temples was so straineous on the goats that transported the stone slabs that it killed 10,000 of them. And the statues/stupas that is housed inside these temples, are made up of tonnes of precious metals and stones that could easily have worthed 
millions each. It would sound blasphemeous to believers, but I am not out to discount their faith. If these money, precious metal and stones donated to contruct these statues and stupas are used to directly benefit the many poor people in Tibet, I think the amount raised could have gone a very very long way. I would like to think that those buried/enshrined in these stupas would have thought the same way too.
Well, that's the power of faith.
If I have never come to Tibet, I will never know that Tibet is soo culturally rich and colorful. But well, I have also realised that, any place or thing that is mysterious, yet reachable by me, is probably not so rustic or magical anymore.
Like the Angkor of Cambodia, I find it astonishing to see the extend, that the ancient people are motivated, to go about to spend the amount of money, effort and time, to build these architectural wonders. Some of these temples and shrines are built with stone slabs dragged over from the Himalayan Ranges. The construction of one of the temples was so straineous on the goats that transported the stone slabs that it killed 10,000 of them. And the statues/stupas that is housed inside these temples, are made up of tonnes of precious metals and stones that could easily have worthed 
millions each. It would sound blasphemeous to believers, but I am not out to discount their faith. If these money, precious metal and stones donated to contruct these statues and stupas are used to directly benefit the many poor people in Tibet, I think the amount raised could have gone a very very long way. I would like to think that those buried/enshrined in these stupas would have thought the same way too.Well, that's the power of faith.
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