a land of Tibet

We're in our coracle on the way to Katok Dorjeden! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't indicate the name of the stream we are on but we know it flows into the Horpo chu. As I mentioned in the poem, the hill upon which the Katok Dorjeden stands is described as resembling the Tibetan letter Ka. I've drawn it here so we can see what it looks like!

I actually have those fonts but thought it looked better drawn in. Anyway, we're going to start practicing a bit of Tibetan script soon so we can create some test printing blocks for the prayer flag. I can't think of a better location than Derge with it's wondrous printing press so we've headed straight here; we can go to the other wondrous places in Dartsedo later. The hill itself is only about 830 meters or about 2700 feet which isn't very high especially by Tibetan standards but it must be a very tough climb from Horpo because it takes about five hours to walk! Looking down from Katok we can see the valley covered in growing trees and plants. There are probably many with healing properties. This place has much shamanic power associated with it. It must have been a place of power for the Bon faith since there was a powerful deity there even as late as the twelfth century. Yeshe Tsogyel Padmasambhava obviously were here! And the sight of 100,000 practitioners a few centuries later flying to adjacent hilltop now called Cloth Hill must have been awesome! This is a known shamanic practice of course, although the shaman often flies on the drum as we know well. On the way up the hill there is a cremation ground and the stupas containing the relics of the Katok founders. They are damaged at the time which we know. Practitioners with sacred vision can see the Drubpa Kabgye, the eight wrathful meditational deities of the Nyingma faith some of whom we've met already: Hayagriva,Yamantaka, Vajrakila, Vajramirta, Matarah, Lokastotrapuja and Vajramanrabhiru! We'll surely meet the rest later! There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one!


	Through My Eyes * We're in our coracle on the way to Katok Dorjeden! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't indicate the name of the stream we are on but we know it flows into the Horpo chu. As I mentioned in the poem, the hill upon which the Katok Dorjeden stands is described as resembling the Tibetan letter Ka. I've drawn it here so we can see what it looks like! I actually have those fonts but thought it looked better drawn in. Anyway, we're going to start practicing a bit of Tibetan script soon so we can create some test printing blocks for the prayer flag. I can't think of a better location than Derge with it's wondrous printing press so we've headed straight here; we can go to the other wondrous places in Dartsedo later. The hill itself is only about 830 meters or about 2700 feet which isn't very high especially by Tibetan standards but it must be a very tough climb from Horpo because it takes about five hours to walk! Looking down from Katok we can see the valley covered in growing trees and plants. There are probably many with healing properties. This place has much shamanic power associated with it. It must have been a place of power for the Bon faith since there was a powerful deity there even as late as the twelfth century. Yeshe Tsogyel Padmasambhava obviously were here! And the sight of 100,000 practitioners a few centuries later flying to adjacent hilltop now called Cloth Hill must have been awesome! This is a known shamanic practice of course, although the shaman often flies on the drum as we know well. On the way up the hill there is a cremation ground and the stupas containing the relics of the Katok founders. They are damaged at the time which we know. Practitioners with sacred vision can see the Drubpa Kabgye, the eight wrathful meditational deities of the Nyingma faith some of whom we've met already: Hayagriva,Yamantaka, Vajrakila, Vajramirta, Matarah, Lokastotrapuja and Vajramanrabhiru! We'll surely meet the rest later! There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one! * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje. ( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)