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51The violence hasn't stopped
These are some of the woman at Gu Chu Sum. Choukyi is in the middle. Choukyi is beautiful. She sits before me, smiling. I can' t imagine where she finds that smile, but there it is, beautiful as day. Choukyi...
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52My Favorite Couple
I emerge every day from the misty valley, and tromp up the uneven stone steps to the Sapna Guesthouse. In Hindi, sapna means dream. They are an older couple. He is overweight, bald. She has tan skin...
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54Hippies and Lamas
The Tibetan Lama sat on a dais which was draped in colorful silk banners. At his side, sitting cross-legged on a lower platform, was an older British woman with a refined accent. Her hair was dyed blonde,...
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55Pranayama
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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54Savasana
“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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63Free 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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70Bad 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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69Mingyur 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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68The 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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