a land of Tibet

We're resting amid the Tso of Sangtobla! Actually our shamanic vision we're resting among them! Our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates that there are 1145 of them in an area of 3200 square kilometres or 1200 square miles! That's about 800,000 acres covered with lakes sparkling beneath the mountain light and countless sculpted rocks that have been eroded into the fantastic shapes of animals and flowers! The plateau ranges from 3600 to 5000 metres or 12,000 to 16,000 feet in altitude and has what remain of the oldest glaciers in Tibet. Tibetans here know them as the 'ancient ice cap of Dabpa'. In fact fossils of dinosaur teeth and prehistoric eucalyptus have been found here on pilgrimages of a somewhat different sort. It may be bleak where growing things are concerned but is probably a wondrous sacred place! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't actually mention the Goddesses of Sangtobla so I thought I'd bring the story of them to us with typical Tibetan flair. Actually the creating of such legends is very much a part of Tibetan life so surely such tales are told in the tents of the nomads on the rocky watershed below! 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 resting amid the Tso of Sangtobla! Actually our shamanic vision we're resting among them! Our Footprint Tibet handbook indicates that there are 1145 of them in an area of 3200 square kilometres or 1200 square miles! That's about 800,000 acres covered with lakes sparkling beneath the mountain light and countless sculpted rocks that have been eroded into the fantastic shapes of animals and flowers! The plateau ranges from 3600 to 5000 metres or 12,000 to 16,000 feet in altitude and has what remain of the oldest glaciers in Tibet. Tibetans here know them as the 'ancient ice cap of Dabpa'. In fact fossils of dinosaur teeth and prehistoric eucalyptus have been found here on pilgrimages of a somewhat different sort. It may be bleak where growing things are concerned but is probably a wondrous sacred place! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't actually mention the Goddesses of Sangtobla so I thought I'd bring the story of them to us with typical Tibetan flair. Actually the creating of such legends is very much a part of Tibetan life so surely such tales are told in the tents of the nomads on the rocky watershed below! 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!)