bus to monastery

The 2 hour bus ride to the monastery was one of the best I've had. The entire bus was mirthful. A scripturist monk and a friend joked the whole way, leaning into eachother on curves and spreading quite a bit of good spirits.

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converts for a day

August 1st 2005
...or more, if lucky. Ganden. One of three famous monasteries in Tibet, one of the three great Gelukpa monasteries . It sits at around 4500 m, perched on and nesteled into a small mountain, wee dirt road snaking below to the east, river snaking below to the west. Before being bombed and fired at, and very much destro ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet

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. A... ... read more

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