DHARMA YATRA SEEMS TO HAVE IT'S ORIGINS IN ANCIENT INDIA AND IS STRONGLY CONNECTED TO SRI YATRA. I SUGGEST THE ORIGINAL DHARMA YATRA'S WERE CIRCUMAMBULATIONS WHICH FOLLOWED THE SRI YANTRA SYMBOL.
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BURMESE MONKS LEADING PEACE WALK-DHARMA YATRA FOR BURMA.
PEACE WALK FOR BURMA. LONDON 2007.
WALKING PEACEFULLY AND CALLING FOR AN END TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BURMA
PEACE WALK " HONK FOR PEACE" AND " NO BLOOD FOR OIL".
USA WALKING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.
WALING IN BLAZING SUN AND WILL SLEEP OUTDOORS.
SOME MONKS DO THIS PRACTISE FOR YEARS.
MONKS AND TRAINEE MONKS DHARMA YATRA IN THAILAND.
SOMETIMES THEY WALK FOR MONTHS WITH NO MONEY. THEY HAVE KEPT THIS CUSTOM FOR 1000 YEARS IN THAILAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
A POSTER FOR ONE OF OUR BRIGHTON DHARMa YATRA'S .
ABOUT 200 PEOPLE JOINED THE WALK.
REVEREND HANDA SHONI SAMA WHO PRACTISED WALKING FOR PEACE UNTIL HE DIED IN 2007
REVEREND HANDA SHONI SAMA YOU HELPED ME PERSONALLY AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. MAY WE CONTINUE YOUR TRADITION OF WALKING TO SPREAD PEACE.
SHE HAS PEACE WALKED THOUSANDS OF MILES WTH NO MONEY
HONOUR THIS WOMEN AND ALL LIKE HER .HER MISSION IS TO BRING HEAVEN AND EARTH CLOSER TOGETHER BY WALKING AND CHANTING.
END OF 5 MONTH PEACE WALK ON BEHALF OF NATIVE AMERICAN'S WHO SUFFERED GENOCIDE.
FROM USA EAST COAST TO WEST COAST TOOK 5 MONTHS.AND ITS CALLED " THE LONG WALK".
NICHIDATSU FUJI JAPANESE MONK WHO WALKED FOR 80 YEARS UNTIL HIS LEGS GAVE OUT.
HE STARTED WALKING FOR PEACE OVER BATTLE FIELDS FULL OF DEAD SOLDIERS IN CHINA AND PRAYED FRO THEM. HE REPORTED MANY DYING MEN CRIED FOR THEIR MOTHERS.
BUDDHIST MONKS WALKING AND CHANTING FOR PEACE
FOLLOWERS OF NICHIDATSU FUJI WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO WALK FOR PEACE.
10,000 STRONG PEACE WALK IN LONDON LED BY BURMESE,ENGLISH,SRI LANKAN, AND JAPANESE BUDDHIST MONKS
WALKING NON VIOLENTLY FOR PEACE.
DHARMA YATRA'S COME IN ALL SHAPES, EVEN LABRYNTH.
THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF YATRA APPEARS TO HAVE STARTED IN ANCIENT INDIA BY CIRCUMANBULATING THE SRI YATRA SHRINE AND EVOLVED FROM THERE.
DHARMA YATRA'S CAN BE HELD FOR ANY REASON.
THIS IS A DHARMA YATRA FOR PERSONAL REASONS.
BEGINING OF CAMBRIDGE DHARMA YATRA FOR BURMA OCTOBER 2007.
THIS IS JUST ONE SECTION OF THE EVENT.
BEGINING OF PEACE WALK
THICH NHAT HAN, MAHA GOSANANDA AND OTHERS ORGANISED DHAMRA YATRA'S IN VIETNAM, CAMBODIA AND USA TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
DHARMA YATRA IN FRANCE CAN YOU SEE HOW LONG LINE IS?
THE LINE GOESOUT OF VIEW AND OUT OF THE PICTURE.
SURVIVOR OF CAMBODIA GENOCIDE AND DHARMA YATRA MASTER THICH NHAT HAN.
EVERY STEP IS PEACE SAYS THICH NHAT HAHN.
CALLING FOR IMPROVEMENT IN CIVIL RIGHTS. NO VIOLENCE. ONLY WALKING
COMPLETELY PEACEFUL.
BIGGEST PEACE WALK-DHARMA YATRA'S SINCE CAMBODIA, POL POT AND KILLING FIELDS GENOCIDE PERIOD.
NOTICE PEOPLE ON SIDES HOLDING HANDS TO PROTECT THE MONKS.
PRAYING AND WALKING
THIS HAS BEEN DONE IN BURMA AND ASIA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
BURMESE MONKS DHARMA YATRA.
PRAYING AND SILENT.
Glasgow Sama Yatra-Peace Walk for Burma Ocober 2007
Organised by Friends Of Western Buddhist Order and Venerable Rewatha.
SHE KEPT HER NAME SECRET AND WALKED 25000 MILES FOR PEACE ACROSS AMERICA.
WALKING FOR PEACE AND SPECIFICALLY " DHARMA YATRA" OR " SAMA YATRA" ARE ANCIENT TRADITIONS WHICH WE EMULATE.
MAHATMA GANDHI WHOSE MODEL OF "SATYA GIRI" AND PEACE WALKS WE FOLLOW
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