A Salar man performs the Tibetan Circle Dance in Kumbum Monastery, one of the most sacred temples in Tibetan Buddhism and the most sacred temples in the region of Amdo
The circle dance is performed in reverance to the Tibetan Master Je Tsongkhapa, who was born in Kumbum Monastery, and who's enlightenment is represented in these stupas
Traditional Salar clothing is identical Amdo Tibetan or Yugur clothing, except for their unique hats
the neoplatonic understanding of longing as remembrance is profoundly beautiful. the soul is drawn toward beauty and transcendence because it retains an ontological likeness to the divine source from which it proceeds. every longing becomes a movement of return toward its origin.
People love Greek statues but cower in fear when they see a naked man before them. "No, please, you’re naked, you are gay, blah blah blah." You’ve been conditioned into thinking that naked men are gay. YOU ARE GAY.
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What the devil do you expect an adolescent to dream of today, one whom modern disciplines exasperate and whom commercial abjection makes vomit? The entire globe has become reasonable and one is assured of encountering an English excrement (excrément anglais) at every intersection of the infinite."
Léon Bloy, Le Désespéré