Gansu: Langmusi


Langmusi is a village between Gansu and Sichuan Province. Its residents are mainly Tibetans and Muslims


Saichi Monastery on the Gansu side surrounded with lengthy arcades of script-rollers


The Tibetan-style Saichi Monastery


Two lamaists after their first badminton game


Saichi faces the Langmusi valley


The Sky Burial site
The stone platform is where human body is disintegrated
Pale smell of blood in the air, the soil is tinted with red


The village of Langmusi
From the roof one can tell whether it's a Tibetan house,
whose roof is scattered with stones
When a bloody wind blows one to the earth, a lamaist will be invited to tell whether it stands for good or bad luck
You may call it substitution, you may call it incredible culture,
or "wisdom beyond the understanding of mediocre modern people" or whatever grand nonsense
I'd rather call it way of living


A nomadic family preparing to moving out of a valley


During the moving, the mother crosses a brook holding the horse, with her kids on the horseback and her dog in front