Sacred Geological Landforms

Holy cairns and religious structures in natural landscapes, emphasizing the connection between spirituality and the environment in cultures such as Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism.

Pacific Ocean, French Polynesia, Society Islands, Raiatea. Altar at Taputapuatea Marae, once considered the central temple and religious center of Eastern Polynesia.

Mongolia, Ovorkhangai. An Ovoo, which is a type of sacred Buddhist cairn, by the roadside with Stupas in the background.

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Yak horn and Tibetan mani stones in front of stupa and chorten at the holy pilgrimage site Thirtapuri, Mount Kailash, Ngari Province, Western Tibet, Tibet, China, Asia

Tibet, Shigatse, Kora around the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

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People at the Armenian Alphabet Monument; Aparan, Aragatsotn Province, Armenia

Buddhist prayer flags on a hillside above the city of Thimpu in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Prayer wheels at the Erdene Zuu monastery complex in Kharakhorum (Karakorum), Mongolia, Mongolias largest monastery, (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Pacific Ocean, French Polynesia, Society Islands, Raiatea. Altar at Taputapuatea Marae, once considered the central temple and religious center of Eastern Polynesia.

Buddhist prayer flags on a hillside above the city of Thimpu in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Handmade items done by the Masai women for sale including jewelry, ornaments and placemats.

Tibet, Kham, Tagong. Cone of prayer flags.

Building a yurt.

Tibetan Buddhism, Mani stones with Tibetan script, former monastery of Nyengo Gompa above Lake Manasarovar, Mapham Yutsho, Kailash area, Ngari, Trans-Himalaya, Himalayas, West Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, Asia

Iron sculpture of a group of pilgrims, Alto del Perdon, Sierra del Perdon, near Pamplona, Camino Frances, Way of St. James, Camino de Santiago, pilgrims way, UNESCO World Heritage, European Cultural Route, province of Navarra, Northern Spain, Spain, Europe

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Islamic cemetery, Ifri kasbah, Ziz river valley, Morocco, Africa.

Abandoned chinese graveyard in Kauai Very old chinese grave headstones abandoned near Glass Beach in Kauai Copyright: xZoonar.com/StevexHeapx 3182492

Prayer flags in front of lake Quinghai, Qinghai, Tibetan Plateau, China, Asia

Siksikaitsitapi contemporary medicine wheel offering site, a rock circle created by the Blood Tribe to represent all four member tribes in a city park

Yurt, Choevsgoel, Mongolia, Asia

Monument to prayer Yunnan China

Cross on a stone wall, Lake Titicaca, Taquile Island, Puno, Peru

Turkmenistan, Urgench, Prayer Flags

Native American Teepe

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Buffalo horns on stone plates in the town of Tsochen, West Tibet, Asia

Canada, Newfoundland, St. John's. Inukshuk (to act the same way as a human). Traditional stone figure used by the Inuit to mark food, hunting grounds, or direction to travelers.

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Haida totem poles, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

WISDOM, MONTANA, USA - Nez Perce Indian camp site tipi poles, at Big Hole National Battlefield, which memorializes the Nez Perce Indians and U.S. soldiers who fought at the Battle of Big Hole in 1877.

Ceremony Pago de la Tierra Offering Altiplano Peru

Ovoo, Mongolian shamanic stone hill or cairn, Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Asia

Nepal, Mustang, monastery

Mongolia, Selenge Province, Amarbayasgalant Monastery

A village filled with Incense smoke early in the morning.

Diamond, Missouri, The Carver cemetery at George Washington Carver National Monument. The graves of Moses and Susan Carver are here, on the farm where Carver was born as a slave in about 1864. This was the first National Monument to honor an African-American

Grave Sites

Ancient pictograms engraved on rock on Saimaluu Tash site in Kyrgyzstan

Ritual hitching posts in the Buryat steppe on the way to the Barguzin Datsan The Face of the Goddess Yanzhima. Ritual hitching posts in the Buryat steppe on the way to the Barguzin Datsan The Face of the Goddess Yanzhima.

Tibet, Yarlung Valley, Man working of stone masons

White crosses at the Iqaluit Municipal Cemetery in Apex, Nunavut, Canada

Tomb and shrine of Moulay Abdeslam ben Mchich, Moroccan Sufi saint during the Almohad Caliphate, Moulay Abdesalam village, Rift mountains, Morocco.

mound of votive stones and offerings, Cruz de Ferro (Iron Cross), Foncebadón hill, Bierzo region,, Castile and Leon, Spain.

Sanctuary of Gauchito Gil, a legendary character of Argentina's popular culture, Rio Negro province, Patagonia, Argentina, South America

deidad Pascual Abaj, situado en su altar, cerro Turkaj, Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala, America Central.

Thailand, Ayuthaya, Wat Logya Suthat, Reclining Buddha, yellow cloth draped over

The Chapel Facility in Steel Castle Base Camp, Tuzla (East), Bosnia is a large hard-back tent with a wooden steeple. Religious services are provided to all denominations throughout each week during Operation Joint Endeavor. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla East Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Buddhist prayer cloth

Russia, Lake Onega, Kizhi Island. Historic 22-domed Transfiguration Church & 9-domed Intercession church. UNESCO site. (RF)

Wind energy, prayer wheels powered by wind, Chiu Gompa Monastery above Lake Manasarovar, Mapham Yutsho, Kailash area, Ngari, Trans-Himalaya, Himalayas, West Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, Asia

Bamboo bridge, Rainforest World Music Festival in Kuching, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia.

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TOLING, CHINA - CIRCA MAY 2017 Inside Toling Monastery

Mongolia, Selenge Province, Amarbayasgalant Monastery

Mani inscriptions on a yak skull, Himalayas, Ladakh, India, Asia

Tradicional sistema de secado de la paja. Cangas de Morrazo. Provincia de Pontevedra. Galicia. España.

Tipi tents during a re-enactment on the Lemhi River on the Nez Perce National Historic Trail near Spalding, Idaho. The trail follows the route taken by the Nez Perce Indian tribe in 1877 during their attempt to flee the U.S. Cavalry and get to Canada, to avoid being forced on to a reservation.

Ovoo with prayer flags in the Great Imperial Map Monument, Kharkhorin (Karakorum), Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia

Buddhist totem, Salbyksky Mound, Valley of the kings, Republic of Khakassia, Russia, Europe

USA, Arizona, Shrine for Accident Victim on Roadside of State Road 85

cromlech Vale Maria do Meio , Nossa Senhora da Graça do Divor ,Évora, Alentejo, Portugal.

Shiva linga lord Shiva Gangotri Uttarakhand India Asia Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Praying stones on the Kailash Kora, Western Tibet, Asia

Reclining Buddha at Wat Lokayasutharam, Ayutthaya, Thailand

Women drying saree in Kumbh Mela at Allahabad Uttar Pradesh India Copyright: xSarveshxJoshi/DinodiaxPhotox

Traditional mongolian Ovoo shrine / Buddhist shrine near border between Russian and Mongolia. Daurian Nature Reserve. Daurian Steppes UNESCO World Heritage Site, Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia, June 2016.

Ancient Stellae serve as headstones for those that have died, some date from the 12th century AD, Ethiopia, Africa.

Chauchilla necropolis, Peru Bones in open inca cemetery in Nazca region , Peru Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 11537323

Chauchilla necropolis, Peru Bones in open inca cemetery in Nazca region , Peru Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 11837751

Wappen aller Städte, durch die die Elbe fließt an der Elbquelle im Riesengebirge, Tschechien *** Coat of arms of all towns through which the Elbe flows at the source of the Elbe in the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic

Christianity holy place travel near Kapernaum

Megalithic dolmens or muniyaras at kovilkadavu Kerala India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Colourful Printed Designs Of Tipis; Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Freshly painted colorful graves, Day of the Dead celebration at the General Cemetery, Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, Republic of Guatemala, Central America.

Tomb and shrine of Moulay Abdeslam ben Mchich, Moroccan Sufi saint during the Almohad Caliphate, Moulay Abdesalam village, Rift mountains, Morocco.

Bhutan, Prayer flags at Cheli La

Tibet, Kora around Sera monastery, painted rocks

Path of Hope at the Point Alpha memorial site between Geisa in Thuringia and Rasdorf in Hesse, the former inner-German border. The art project of the Point Alpha Foundation ties in with the Christian Way of the Cross and with its 14 stations recalls the suffering of the people in the communist dictatorships of Central and Eastern Europe. Here Station 1 Arbitrariness, Jesus is sentenced to death, Geisa, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Tibetan yurt on the meadow at Horse Race Festival, Litang, western Sichuan, China

Prayer site The skulls of particularly successful, died racing horses are lined up at holy sites, Mongolia, Central Asia

Buryat shaman totem bull Buryat shaman totem bull, Barguzin valley,Buryatia, Russia. Copyright: xZoonar.com/MYCHKOx 9539862

Polynesia, Cook Islands, Aitutaki. Wooden sign for Cook Islands Christian Church.

Tomb and shrine of Moulay Abdeslam ben Mchich, Moroccan Sufi saint, cork flooring, Moulay Abdesalam village, Rift mountains, Morocco.

Freshly painted colorful graves, Day of the Dead celebration at the General Cemetery, Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, Republic of Guatemala, Central America.

The Hill of Crosses - a site of pilgrimage in northern Lithuania. Over the generations, crosses, crucifixes, statues of the Virgin Mary and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been placed here by Catholic pilgrims.

High angle view of Garden of Thousand Buddhas, Monywa, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

A view of tents erected at one of the temporary housing facilities for Vietnamese refugees. In the foreground is a large wooden cross marking the site of the first Christian mission in California.

Ilulissat Cemetery, Greenland Ilulissat, Greenland - July 11, 2018: The local cemetery with white wooden crosses Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFoerstnerx 16793725

Prayer Flags, Gegeet Valley. Mongolia.

Mountain of the crosses, cath. Place of pilgrimage in Lithuania Berg der Kreuze, Kath. Pilgrimage site in Lithuania

Sacred burial site near Elvillar village in La Rioja alavesa region northern Spain.

Praying stones, Lake Manasarovar, Western Tibet, Asia

First Nations Tipi village above the Fraser River at night withstar trails, british columbia, canada

Nepal, Kathmandu, Pashupatinath, cremation funeral

Modern religious monument at a cemetery high on the Altiplano in Peru, South America.

Salvation Mountain with God is love sign

Souvenir stand at resting area, between Dangxiong and the Nam-Tsho-Lake, Tibet

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Japanese writing utensils, rubbing stone, inkslab, brush, cardboards for writing, on a rush mat at the Kamigamo shrine in Kyoto, Japan, Asia

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