1st September 2019 at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London SE1.

Tibetan Peace Garden 20th Anniversary Commemoration. The Peace Garden was opened in May 1999 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Its aim is to honour one of his principal teachings - the need to create understanding between different cultures and to establish places of peace and harmony in the world. The event was organised by the Tibet Foundation, a British organisation to promote and support people of Tibetan origin including their spititual traditions.

The event began with a Peace Walk or Kora around Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, culminating inside the Tibetan Peace Garden. A form of pilgrimage or meditative practice, this consisted of a guided tour of the Park. The walk leader highlighted various features of the Park including its tree trail (34 native trees that colonised Britain after the last ice age), the Imperial War Musuem (in the former Bethlem Hospital) and the Soviet War Memorial (commemorate the loss of 27 million citizens of the former Soviet Union in World War II)..The walkers included the Tashi Lhunpo monks and representatives of various religious groups.
In this photo: Some of the walkers setting off on the circuit of the Park.

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1st September 2019 at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London SE1.

Tibetan Peace Garden 20th Anniversary Commemoration. The Peace Garden was opened in May 1999 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Its aim is to honour one of his principal teachings - the need to create understanding between different cultures and to establish places of peace and harmony in the world. The event was organised by the Tibet Foundation, a British organisation to promote and support people of Tibetan origin including their spititual traditions.

The event began with a Peace Walk or Kora around Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, culminating inside the Tibetan Peace Garden. A form of pilgrimage or meditative practice, this consisted of a guided tour of the Park. The walk leader highlighted various features of the Park including its tree trail (34 native trees that colonised Britain after the last ice age), the Imperial War Musuem (in the former Bethlem Hospital) and the Soviet War Memorial (commemorate the loss of 27 million citizens of the former Soviet Union in World War II)..The walkers included the Tashi Lhunpo monks and representatives of various religious groups.
In this photo: Around the Soviet War Memorial with the the Imperial War Musuem in the background.

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1st September 2019 at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London SE1.

Tibetan Peace Garden 20th Anniversary Commemoration. The Peace Garden was opened in May 1999 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Its aim is to honour one of his principal teachings - the need to create understanding between different cultures and to establish places of peace and harmony in the world. The event was organised by the Tibet Foundation, a British organisation to promote and support people of Tibetan origin including their spititual traditions.

The event began with a Peace Walk or Kora around Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, culminating inside the Tibetan Peace Garden. A form of pilgrimage or meditative practice, this consisted of a guided tour of the Park. The walk leader highlighted various features of the Park including its tree trail (34 native trees that colonised Britain after the last ice age), the Imperial War Musuem (in the former Bethlem Hospital) and the Soviet War Memorial (commemorate the loss of 27 million citizens of the former Soviet Union in World War II)..The walkers included the Tashi Lhunpo monks and representatives of various religious groups.
In this photo: Around the Soviet War Memorial with the the Imperial War Musuem in the background.

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1st September 2019 at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London SE1.

Tibetan Peace Garden 20th Anniversary Commemoration. The Peace Garden was opened in May 1999 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Its aim is to honour one of his principal teachings - the need to create understanding between different cultures and to establish places of peace and harmony in the world. The event was organised by the Tibet Foundation, a British organisation to promote and support people of Tibetan origin including their spititual traditions.

The event began with a Peace Walk or Kora around Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, culminating inside the Tibetan Peace Garden. A form of pilgrimage or meditative practice, this consisted of a guided tour of the Park. The walk leader highlighted various features of the Park including its tree trail (34 native trees that colonised Britain after the last ice age), the Imperial War Musuem (in the former Bethlem Hospital) and the Soviet War Memorial (commemorate the loss of 27 million citizens of the former Soviet Union in World War II)..The walkers included the Tashi Lhunpo monks and representatives of various religious groups.
In this photo: By the 15 inch naval guns (taken from battleships) outside the front of the Imperial War Museum.

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1st September 2019 at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London SE1.

Tibetan Peace Garden 20th Anniversary Commemoration. The Peace Garden was opened in May 1999 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Its aim is to honour one of his principal teachings - the need to create understanding between different cultures and to establish places of peace and harmony in the world. The event was organised by the Tibet Foundation, a British organisation to promote and support people of Tibetan origin including their spititual traditions.

Country:Tibet (Indian residents). Style: Buddhist Music and Chants.

The Tashi Lhunpo monastry was founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama in Shigatse, Tibet. It was the traditional seat of the Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking lineage in Tibetan Buddhism. In 1972 exiles established a new campus in the Mysore Disctrict in the state of Karanataka in south India. Small groups from the 300 monks at the monastry have regularly visited the UK including the opening of this Peace Park in 1999 (with a couple of the same monks). They provided an instrumental prelude to the Commemoration playing Dung-Chens (a natural trumpet) and Gyalings (a reed shawm). Then they chanted a blessing. I have seen the Tashi Lhunpo Monks perform twice before at World City Music Village festivals (the 1999 Sacred Voices and 2000 Sacred Voices Millennium). I narrowly missed a FreeStage appeance at the Barbican in 2011 when arriving for an evening concert (but was able to take some photos of their instruments). I have been keen ever since to have an opportunity to properly photograph them.
In this photo: Preparing to enter the Peace Garden.
More information: www.facebook.com/tashi.lhunpo.monks/.

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