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Giggling at Buddha's Birthday puja - with reverence and love  
   

Giggling at Buddha's Birthday puja - with reverence and love

The boys have been taking great care of their English teacher...No tea round was going to pass me by.
Right here right now

May 11th 2007
Having arrived in Leh on 24th April, it transpired that my most recent e-mail did not reach any of my contacts in Leh. They thought I was coming around 26th! Hence, there I was at the airport...all aloooone... and the Journey had started in earnest. I got a taxi to only place I knew of...through a dusty road, away from Leh town and up the hill to the Spitok Gompa (monastery). Unknowingly, I took ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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