a land of Tibet

We're on Lake Namtso Chukmo in our coracle floating toward the cave hermitage of Tashidor with it's two high rock towers! Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyel spent time here. Many great lamas were to follow in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions each dedicated to the benefit of all living beings. What a wondrous feeling must permeate this place! Along the shore is a mani wall of prayer stones where pilgrims will inscribe mantras onto pieces of stone and leave them as offerings to enhance the sanctity of a sacred place and to encourage their own growth. Over the nearly a thousand years so many have been left there that they form a wall! Not far away from Tashidor is a bird sanctuary which in this atmosphere is a sanctuary of the truest sense. Of course, before the invasion all of Tibet was a sanctuary since Tibetans considered all life sacred and wouldn't kill a wild creature for any reason. In fact, as the Dalai Lama mentions,Tibetans have such a strong aversion to the taking of life that they suffered a good deal upon arrival in the refugee camps of India because while they would eat meat they couldn't bring themselves to butcher animals. Out across the lake the great Mount Nyenchen Tanglha soars into the sky ; it is the abode of the protector deity of whom we know already. Lake Namtso was also associated with the Bon faith that preceded Buddhism and to the North on the headland we can make out the ruins of Bon sacred sites on the way to Nangba rock. Lake Namtso is about 70 km or 40 miles in length so it takes 18 days to make a pilgrimage around it on foot. There's much to add but two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one as it is a bit late!


	Through My Eyes * We're on Lake Namtso Chukmo in our coracle floating toward the cave hermitage of Tashidor with it's two high rock towers! Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyel spent time here. Many great lamas were to follow in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions each dedicated to the benefit of all living beings. What a wondrous feeling must permeate this place! Along the shore is a mani wall of prayer stones where pilgrims will inscribe mantras onto pieces of stone and leave them as offerings to enhance the sanctity of a sacred place and to encourage their own growth. Over the nearly a thousand years so many have been left there that they form a wall! Not far away from Tashidor is a bird sanctuary which in this atmosphere is a sanctuary of the truest sense. Of course, before the invasion all of Tibet was a sanctuary since Tibetans considered all life sacred and wouldn't kill a wild creature for any reason. In fact, as the Dalai Lama mentions,Tibetans have such a strong aversion to the taking of life that they suffered a good deal upon arrival in the refugee camps of India because while they would eat meat they couldn't bring themselves to butcher animals. Out across the lake the great Mount Nyenchen Tanglha soars into the sky ; it is the abode of the protector deity of whom we know already. Lake Namtso was also associated with the Bon faith that preceded Buddhism and to the North on the headland we can make out the ruins of Bon sacred sites on the way to Nangba rock. Lake Namtso is about 70 km or 40 miles in length so it takes 18 days to make a pilgrimage around it on foot. There's much to add but two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one as it is a bit late! * 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!)