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Tibetan Prayer Flags

Significance and meaning of the colorful Tibetan Prayer Flags. Segment taken from ARoadRetraveled.com, Episode #32: "Yak Butter Blues: Tibet Special Feature"

from YouTube on Sat, Aug 09 2008

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