Tea
Lama Yonten, being served tea by a neighbor's daughter. We visited many homes so that he could recite prayers and blessings to protect the family in the coming year.
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more]
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more] Blog: New Year's Photo Gallery
Date: February 26th 2007
Part One: It is the eve of the Tibetan and Chinese New Years, which this year fall on the same date. I am in a small Tibetan village in Aba, which is located in the heart of Sichuan Province. Aba’s favorite point of boasting is that it is the home of the panda bear. Every Chinese school child knows the English word “panda” and I’m told that all panda bears in zoos around the w ... read more
Date: February 26th 2007
Part One: It is the eve of the Tibetan and Chinese New Years, which this year fall on the same date. I am in a small Tibetan village in Aba, which is located in the heart of Sichuan Province. Aba’s favorite point of boasting is that it is the home of the panda bear. Every Chinese school child knows the English word “panda” and I’m told that all panda bears in zoos around the w ... read more
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I'm an American living between Golok, Tibet and Varanasi, India. I'm studying Tibetan language and translating the works of Buddhist masters of the past. I also work for a charitable non-profit called Vision Builders. Please visit us at http//www.visionbuilders.org and see what we are doing in the Himalayas!... full info
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