a land of Tibet

We're in our coracle on Lake Yangdo Updutso! Our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates it's also named Lhamo Dungtso. We've been travelling quite a bit! We headed first up to the Hongshan mountains which are about 60 miles 100 km to the northeast of Gyeltangteng. At least I thought they were so we made our way there. They're about 4000 meters about 13,000 feet. On the great rockfall slopes or scree slopes as we know they are called there are many wondrous flowers and the meadows are covered in them as well! Since Tibetans are able to make bowls of azalea wood they must have thick trunks and we know that rhododendron grow quite large here. It must be incredible when the flowers are in bloom and surely there are many wondrous plants here for shamanic healing work! Anyway then it was on to the lakes of Zhado, Beta, Jehra and then Yangdo Updutso! Our Footprint Tibet handbook didn't indicate where these were on the drawings but we've managed to figure out where they probably are! The descriptions indicate a rise in altitude so we are somewhere on the highlands between the Yangtze Dri chu and Gyeltangteng chu valleys. The flowers of Tibet have wondrously intense colors and can be found growing even in the harshest of places on what seems to be bare rock. Zhado we know is renowned for them! Beta lake and Balgo forest probably have many wondrous flowers ; perhaps the Songrong mushroom grows there! In any case the spirits must be very powerful throughout the entire area. So we're resting at Yangdo Updutso listening to the sound of the wind and the flow from the glacier ice into the lake as the water flows in wondrous designs beneath the vast mountain sky. 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 Lake Yangdo Updutso! Our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates it's also named Lhamo Dungtso. We've been travelling quite a bit! We headed first up to the Hongshan mountains which are about 60 miles 100 km to the northeast of Gyeltangteng. At least I thought they were so we made our way there. They're about 4000 meters about 13,000 feet. On the great rockfall slopes or scree slopes as we know they are called there are many wondrous flowers and the meadows are covered in them as well! Since Tibetans are able to make bowls of azalea wood they must have thick trunks and we know that rhododendron grow quite large here. It must be incredible when the flowers are in bloom and surely there are many wondrous plants here for shamanic healing work! Anyway then it was on to the lakes of Zhado, Beta, Jehra and then Yangdo Updutso! Our Footprint Tibet handbook didn't indicate where these were on the drawings but we've managed to figure out where they probably are! The descriptions indicate a rise in altitude so we are somewhere on the highlands between the Yangtze Dri chu and Gyeltangteng chu valleys. The flowers of Tibet have wondrously intense colors and can be found growing even in the harshest of places on what seems to be bare rock. Zhado we know is renowned for them! Beta lake and Balgo forest probably have many wondrous flowers ; perhaps the Songrong mushroom grows there! In any case the spirits must be very powerful throughout the entire area. So we're resting at Yangdo Updutso listening to the sound of the wind and the flow from the glacier ice into the lake as the water flows in wondrous designs beneath the vast mountain sky. 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!)