大象传媒

Valmik Thapar is looking for a special tiger way up in the Himalayas at Namobuddha. The shrine here symbolises how Buddhism embraces nature: it's where Lord Buddha is said to have given his life to save a starving tigress and her cubs. Here in a shrine in the mountains of Nepal, a carved stone of great antiquity shows how the Buddha pierced his hand and gave his own blood so the tigress and her cubs could live. That so much else survives owes much to the pervading influence of religious belief. In the endless cycle of death and rebirth, man and animal are inextricably entwined. And nowhere is that more true than in these Mountains of the Gods. This is the land of a phantom, the phantom of the snows. For some, it鈥榮 considered to be a bridge between Heaven and Earth, a symbol of freedom.