a land of Tibet

We're at Lake Yamdrok Yutso! Actually, we're in it beautiful one, floating along on a yak skin boat. Well I'm not as enthusiastic about it being made of yak skin but this was the only way for Tibetans could get about. These coracles were actually quite large and could carry heavy loads and several people in some cases. Now there are ferries which move people about. Lake Yamdrok is regarded as the talisman of Tibet whose continued presence insures that Tibet will remain habitable for living beings. There's Mount Donang Sangwari which our footprint Tibet handbook describes as being mysterious and having lots of sacred caves. Beyond Donang Sangwari is the Samding monastery which as we know already from reading the Dalai Lama's book is headed by a woman who is in fact a shaman! Samding Dorje Phagmo the abbess of Samding is described as the highest female incarnation in Tibet and once played a practical joke out of necessity. In accounts I've seen the legend varies depending upon who is telling it; sometimes the intruding Dzungar army chieftain bursts into the hall to see a bunch of nuns that have been turned temporarily into sows, sometimes he bursts into the hall to find the assembly seated at a table with a being having a sows head seated facing him with amusement. Two as one we've fixed a few small mistakes in notes from last week. I'll add to the notes a bit later beautiful determined bright one! The first design attempt for your loom sits on the bench waiting for more work and we've a few more boards in the small pile.


	Through My Eyes * We're at Lake Yamdrok Yutso! Actually, we're in it beautiful one, floating along on a yak skin boat. Well I'm not as enthusiastic about it being made of yak skin but this was the only way for Tibetans could get about. These coracles were actually quite large and could carry heavy loads and several people in some cases. Now there are ferries which move people about. Lake Yamdrok is regarded as the talisman of Tibet whose continued presence insures that Tibet will remain habitable for living beings. There's Mount Donang Sangwari which our footprint Tibet handbook describes as being mysterious and having lots of sacred caves. Beyond Donang Sangwari is the Samding monastery which as we know already from reading the Dalai Lama's book is headed by a woman who is in fact a shaman! Samding Dorje Phagmo the abbess of Samding is described as the highest female incarnation in Tibet and once played a practical joke out of necessity. In accounts I've seen the legend varies depending upon who is telling it; sometimes the intruding Dzungar army chieftain bursts into the hall to see a bunch of nuns that have been turned temporarily into sows, sometimes he bursts into the hall to find the assembly seated at a table with a being having a sows head seated facing him with amusement. Two as one we've fixed a few small mistakes in notes from last week. I'll add to the notes a bit later beautiful determined bright one! The first design attempt for your loom sits on the bench waiting for more work and we've a few more boards in the small pile. * 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!)