{"id":334,"date":"2012-08-03T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=334"},"modified":"2012-08-11T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T10:12:42","slug":"prayer-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer flags are part of the McLeod Ganj landscape. They are functional and not design elements. There&#8217;s no sacrilege when they appear next to clothes drying on a laundry line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_335\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-335\" title=\"Prayer flags with laundry\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-09-Nov-11-380-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayer flags with laundry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are very much in evidence at the Norbulingka Institute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_336\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-336\" title=\"Prayer flags at Norbulingka Institute\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-10-Nov-11-417-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayer flags at Norbulingka Institute<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The largest collection of prayer flags has to be those I found at the Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_337\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-337\" title=\"Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 1\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-453-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 1<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_339\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-339\" title=\"Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 2\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-455-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 2<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-338\" title=\"Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 3\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McLeod-Ganj-11-Nov-11-454-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayer flags at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat 3<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer flags are part of the McLeod Ganj landscape. They are functional and not design elements. There&#8217;s no sacrilege when they appear next to clothes drying on a laundry line.<br \/>\nThey are very much in evidence at the Norbulingka Institute.<br \/>\nThe largest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-5o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}