Switzerland. Canton Aargau. Rüfenah. Yangchen Büchli in her garden. Lung ta are tibetan prayer flags of square or rectangular shape, and are connected along their top edges to a long string or thread. The swiss tibetan woman is an Aeschimann's child who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a better life and a good education. Most of the children still had parents in exile or in Tibet, just a few were orphans. The Tibetan flag, also known as the "snow lion flag" and the 'Free Tibet flag', was a flag of the military of Tibet, introduced by the 13th Dalai Lama in 1912 and used for the same capacity until 1959. Designed with the help of a Japanese priest, it reflects the design motif of the Japanese military's Rising Sun Flag. Since the 1960s, it is used a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement. The flag of Switzerland consists of a red flag with a white cross (a bold, equilateral cross) in the centre. 25.02.2015 © 2015 Didier Ruef