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77Tibet: an extraordinary land and its people
During the many years I lived in South Asia for many years, I was able to spend time in Tibet. It is an extraordinary place, home to many interesting people, and a land of diverse ecosystems. I have been...
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78Dalai Lama Dharamsala
Prayer Flags.... Fluttering away with the gust of the silent winds..... Dharamsala Dharamsala ! Dharamshala ! The Home of Dalai Lama, Seat of Vedic Spirituality ! Dharamsala, today is more to me than just...
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56Free Tibet
Today I sat with six Tibetan women, three of them nuns, and we spent several hours conversing in English. McLeod Ganj, the small town I’m in, is home to thousands of Tibetan refugees. Many of them are...
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54Pranayama
The room is tiny, the walls painted white with colorful symbols: the Om sign, a black and white yin yang, a blue bird crossing the sky, a ripple of orange sunlight. The door to the room is flung open, and...
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53Savasana
“Lie back and close your eyes,” he says in a lulling, hypnotic voice. I can picture his dark Jain eyes and his black, glossy curls. We obey, and lie back on the cushions, legs pointing towards the...
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71Tenzin Choegyal, the Dalai Lama's Brother
I was with a sangha staying in Dharamsala, India, a Tibetan exile community where the Dalai Lama lives. Our group was split into two guesthouses; the one I stayed at belonged to the local maharaja, and the...
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60Mingyur Rinpoche at Powell's Books
I arrived about ten minutes early for the author event at the Basil Halward Gallery at Powell’s City of Books on Burnside in downtown Portland. Most of the seats were already taken. A few minutes after...
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66The Tibetan Nuns Project
The following are photos that I took at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamsala, site of the Tibetan Nuns Project, which has the purpose of educating nuns on the same level as monks. Tibetan women, including...
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64Bad Manners
Many men in Northern India are abominably bad-mannered. Notice that I didn’t say all. I said many. I have become rather adept at avoiding eye contact (a social intimacy which, apparently, only hookers...
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