This, I think, is what we do in life, circling the places we -- and others before us -- have traveled to, finding meaning both in the journey and contemplation of the journey, whether it's circumambulating the Jokhang in Lhasa, sitting under the bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, or cycling over to a Left Bank street on a summer afternoon in Paris.
By circumambulating a stupa, a person is said to gain merit and drive off negative forces.
And in 1923, when my grandmother and great-grandfather were in Tibet, they joined the river of pilgrims circumambulating the sacred 7th-century Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.
My companion was as taken with this tree as I. Together we circumambulated it.
I would have liked to circumambulate the entire 155km shoreline, but my own time wasn't in sufficient supply.
The exhibition, opening in January, will also feature the work of contemporary Saudi artists such as Ahmed Mater, who has created an installation with magnets and iron filings to symbolise hundreds of thousands of pilgrims circumambulating the Ka'bah, the black granite cube in Mecca thought to be built by Abraham and his son Ishmael.
Circumambulating in a counterclockwise movement i.e., keeping the left shoulder toward the central object called prasavya, is observed in funeral ceremonies.
For years, I would circumambulate Disneyland's Fantasyland on my painted pony, thinking about my life the last time I was on that ride, setting intentions for the next time.
In the Hoysala idiom, madanika figures are decorative objects put at an angle on the outer walls of the temple near the roof so that worshipers circumambulating the temple can view them.
When I was younger, I would wander/circumambulate the labyrinths of books at Flushing Library and marvel at the worlds contained within the library.
Circumambulating the ramparts confers splendid views.
