We landed in Paro, Bhutan, and drove a strenuous meandering 12 hours across the country to Bumthang – a broad Himalayan foothill valley filled […]
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Occupied
Being thus unmindful of what occurs is delusion; the very state of unawareness and the cause of going astray…
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Drak Yerpa: The Heart of Sacred Mountains
Pilgrimage is a personal experience, even when performed with a group. Each person discovers his or her personal favorite sites, and within each site, his […]
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Heart of the World
I’m still in Tibet. Although I’m sitting on the stairs in front of Bodhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, when I meet Tibetans here it feels […]
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Harvest Day
Each year, the astrologers of Lo Monthang, Nepal, set the annual harvest days according to the Tibetan Lunar Calendar. For two sequential days, villagers head […]
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Padma Sambhava and the Ranjung Cave of Mustang
The ancient kingdom of Mustang in northwest Nepal, like so many other mountain kingdoms of the Himalayan region from Bhutan to Ladakh, became part of […]
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Sakpa
Then she leans on his neck and whispers low…
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Treeless. Gravel embedded in hands as my forehead meets the hard surface of your sand…
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Mustang, Nepal
I can’t stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, “Put this design in your carpet!” – Rumi “Put This Design in Your […]
Read More A Day in the Life- Pharping, Nepal- Visions and Sounds
The hilltop town of Pharping lies an hour or so to the southwest of Kathmandu. Tibetans know it as Yangley Shoo, and it has played […]
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