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 the Tibetan empire established by King Songtsen Gampo in the first half of the seventh century. As a result, most people in these regions still […]
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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…
Read More 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 an important role in the development of Tibetan Buddhism.
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The self-arising Great Expanse, beyond expression, has neither the name ‘samsara’ nor ‘nirvana’. Realizing just this, you are a Buddha. Not realizing this, you are a being wandering in samsara. —The Prayer of Kuntuzangpo
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5:00 to 7:30 AM Day is begun. Wake to the clamor of Kathmandu…
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We are formed. We are forming. Ronen, Tamin, Glenn, Sarah, Jon, Clemma, Magdalena and Marc. Eight wagons in a caravan. Eight spokes to a wheel, turning in the same direction, across sands and mountain passes, from the Gobi to Everest. Our journey is begun. We explore, reflect, probe and share. […]
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The Gobi Dessert is returning my senses back to me over and over again,I did not even know to miss them…
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The Dalai Lama once remarked that future historians will probably refer to the twentieth century as a century of war and bloodshed. Two world wars, together with violent dictatorships and Communist mass murders, witnessed the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people. But as Charles Dickens once said of […]
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