a land of Tibet

We're back in Lhassa where the Potala and Lukhang are! We can visit the Johkhang temple since we've been hearing of it in the Dalai Lama's book. It was actually one of the first palaces in Tibet and was built on top of a lake that had been filled in to subdue the energies there under the plan of Queen Wen Cheng, one of King Songsten Gampo's wives. As I understand it, the basic thought was to make Tibet a safer place using the art of geomancy which is the use of built structures to alter the flow of energy in a place to make it more suitable for a particular purpose or human habitation. A shamanic task to be sure! The skill was highly developed by many native peoples who were sensitive to such energies. We can read more of this at another time gentle beautiful one if you would like! Queen Bhikruti, his other wife paid for the construction and the entrance faces west in her honor. The temple was built to help all of Tibet and unlike other places built by royalty in other places of the world which became hated symbols to be looted and destroyed during revolutions it has always been a source of reverence for all Tibetans. That reverence kept it a sacred place through some terrible periods of Tibetan history when it became a target for the foes of Buddhism and was defiled in horrible ways especially during the Chinese government's cultural revolution. Each time the love of the pilgrim prostrating face down upon the ground overcame the most exalted powers upon the earth which is awesome when we think about it! Look at the Nyenchen Tanglha mountains all in a row; I obviously was thinking about the boards we two as one have been making for your loom gentle beautiful determined bright one! Lake Yamdrok Yutso has a strange shape doesn't it? It has been likened to a scorpion and has many legends associated with it which we can learn of later together. There's the town of Sakya that the Dalai Lama mentions. It was the center of power during time Tibet was under the control of the Mongolian empire.


	Through My Eyes * We're back in Lhassa where the Potala and Lukhang are! We can visit the Johkhang temple since we've been hearing of it in the Dalai Lama's book. It was actually one of the first palaces in Tibet and was built on top of a lake that had been filled in to subdue the energies there under the plan of Queen Wen Cheng, one of King Songsten Gampo's wives. As I understand it, the basic thought was to make Tibet a safer place using the art of geomancy which is the use of built structures to alter the flow of energy in a place to make it more suitable for a particular purpose or human habitation. A shamanic task to be sure! The skill was highly developed by many native peoples who were sensitive to such energies. We can read more of this at another time gentle beautiful one if you would like! Queen Bhikruti, his other wife paid for the construction and the entrance faces west in her honor. The temple was built to help all of Tibet and unlike other places built by royalty in other places of the world which became hated symbols to be looted and destroyed during revolutions it has always been a source of reverence for all Tibetans. That reverence kept it a sacred place through some terrible periods of Tibetan history when it became a target for the foes of Buddhism and was defiled in horrible ways especially during the Chinese government's cultural revolution. Each time the love of the pilgrim prostrating face down upon the ground overcame the most exalted powers upon the earth which is awesome when we think about it! Look at the Nyenchen Tanglha mountains all in a row; I obviously was thinking about the boards we two as one have been making for your loom gentle beautiful determined bright one! Lake Yamdrok Yutso has a strange shape doesn't it? It has been likened to a scorpion and has many legends associated with it which we can learn of later together. There's the town of Sakya that the Dalai Lama mentions. It was the center of power during time Tibet was under the control of the Mongolian empire. * 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!)