{"id":8722,"date":"2013-05-10T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2013-05-08T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:32:05","slug":"prayers-kichu-lhakhang-paro-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/prayers-kichu-lhakhang-paro-bhutan.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayers: Kichu Lhakhang, Paro, Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman turns a prayer wheel at Kyichu Lhakhang in Paro, Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>In Bhutan, it is a tradition to retire from everyday life after a certain age and spend rest of the life wearing a monk&#8217;s robe in a spiritual quest. A small group of elderly men and women usually congregate in Paro&#8217;s Kichu Lahkhang every day, spending their time turning the prayer wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Kichu Lhakhang (lhakhang = temple in dzongkha) is one of the oldest living temples in Bhutan, and played an instrumental role in spreading Bhuddhism to Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kyichu-lhakhang-bhutan-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8723\" alt=\"Kyichu Lhakhang, Paro, Bhutan\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kyichu-lhakhang-bhutan-s.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kyichu-lhakhang-bhutan-s.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kyichu-lhakhang-bhutan-s-640x433.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kyichu-lhakhang-bhutan-s-900x609.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman turns a prayer wheel at Kyichu Lhakhang in Paro, Bhutan. In Bhutan, it is a tradition to retire from everyday life after a certain age and spend rest of the life wearing a monk&#8217;s robe in a spiritual quest. A small group of elderly men and women usually congregate in Paro&#8217;s Kichu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[325,157],"tags":[554,177,387,386,335,158],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan","category-photos","tag-bhutan","tag-buddhism","tag-kichu-lhakhang","tag-kyichi-lhakhang","tag-paro","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2gG","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}