The other day I saw a stack of square bricks sitting next to a restaurant's outdoor patio at a mall.
I didn't know whether the person who stacked the bricks had anything spiritual in mind, but they still reminded me of the Tibetan rocks piles I saw next to China's largest lake.
See the Qinghai Lake photos I posted two years ago for more scenes at a place far away in many ways from Shanghai.
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VUkYvmOmmQg/VHRpAKfT0sI/AAAAAAAAQ1M/DAzrWiNKb4w/s640/shanghai-square-pile.jpg)
I didn't know whether the person who stacked the bricks had anything spiritual in mind, but they still reminded me of the Tibetan rocks piles I saw next to China's largest lake.
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bUDriA24jeQ/T8tJ8ZYjvzI/AAAAAAAACs4/j1FCU7GlBas/s640/qinghai-lake-tibetan-rock-piles.jpg)
See the Qinghai Lake photos I posted two years ago for more scenes at a place far away in many ways from Shanghai.
An Inushuk, as we call them in Canada?
ReplyDeleteInteresting! After a quick read, I see that inuksuks (inushuks) may have been used primarily for practical purposes, different from the spiritual purposes of rock piles in Tibetan / Buddhist culture. So I wouldn't call the above an inuksuk in English. I'd be curious to know what an Inuktitut speaker would say though.
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