Blogs from Sikkim, India, Asia - page 8

Today is my last day at the Taktse International School, a community that in some ways feels so familiar to schools at home, it's hard to believe the distance that separates this place from home, until I look out the library window at a 15,000 foot mountain range. A school in its infancy, Taktse began four years ago as this quiet state of Sikkim became inundated with factories and controversial hydroelectric projects. As peaceful as this land is, it has not supplied an education to locals adequate enough to stand up to these external forces. More, little job training is available to supply inhabitants with the skills to compete for employment, locally and beyond; the majority of positions these large scale projects create are given to people outside the community. A school of 150 students ranging ... read more

The main idea haiku Up in the mountains The air's cool as am I but Hurting after hike For those with a little more time: I hope this finds you well. Today marks two full weeks on the other side of the world. My guidebook has been temporarily shelved and my belongings have slowly strewn themselves across the floor of my temporary residence, the Chan Bari Guest House, in the small city of Gangtok, in the state of Sikkim, a forgotten part of the world wedged between India and China. Sikkim, an independent nation until 1975, still requires its own visa to enter, and has retained some of its autonomy, both politically and spiritually, from the time before pressure from the west and north required the land to seek protection from India. So isolated is it ... read more

IRGENDWIE HABEN WIR immer wieder glueck, sei es dass wir aus unangenehmen situationen abhauen koennen oder wir kommen wieder mal zufaellig an orten vorbei, wo wir seltene feiern oder zeremonien beobachten koennen! SO WIE HIER IN SIKKIM, genauer gesagt in ravangla! beim vorherigen aufenthalt haben wir erfahren, dass es zu einem grossen moment fuer die hiesige monastry & fuer ganz sikkim kommen wird! die karma thekcheling monastry wurde ja soeben fertiggestellt und in der umgebung wird gerade an der groessten buddhastatue (60m hoch!) dem sakyamuniprojekt (http://www.sakyamuniproject.com/main.htm) eifrig gebaut! nun haben die sikkimesen die thai gebeten, ob diese nicht bereit waeren, relikte von buddha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic#Buddhist_relics) zu spenden, welche unter der buddhastatue in einem schrein aufbewahrt werden sollen! fuer ein buddhistisches kloster ein unermessliche... read more

Hello, Here are some pictures of amazing Sikkim! Christophe... read more

TAMANG MY COMMUNITY The Tamang is the community which I belong to. Most of the people don’t know about the Tamangs in our country, but they are very much existing in North-Eastern part of India. As, I belong to Tamang community, it made me to find about my community. Some kind of curiosity was there to get the proper information related to my community. I am very much keen to find out who are Tamangs? From where they migrated, what are their origins and many more? I tried to find it out and I got some answer of my questions. Now, I am very keen to share with you all. May be I am wrong in many way but what I got after my search I am sharing with you all. If you think some of ... read more