a land of Tibet

We're in our coracle heading up the Yalong Dza chu on our way to Sershul monastery for the rain retreat festival and the cham , the festival dance! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't say a lot about the sites here. I think this is because this area was and is subject to so much cultural suppression by the Chinese government in Tibet; a lot of the information has not become available outside Tibet until recently. Anyway, two as one we can look for some recordings of the different instruments which must be fascinating. It must be unbelievably difficult to blow those giant tunchen horns at 4050 meters, over 13000 feet! Two as one we've noticed a few mistakes on the Tibetan name for the Yangtze Dri chu on the website. We'll fix them later. There are a lot of monasteries here. Unlike central Tibet most are smaller with at most a few hundred monks as opposed to Ganden, for example that had, if I remember, about 20,000! There are a lot more lineages represented nearby one another here though. There were monks that studied in several lineages here. I've learned Patrul Rinpoche was actually one of these. One of the texts he often preferred to expound upon was the Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva. This is because in fact he was the Bodhisattva Shantideva so of course he was able to comment with particular insight on the text since he had written it over a thousand years earlier! 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 heading up the Yalong Dza chu on our way to Sershul monastery for the rain retreat festival and the cham , the festival dance! Our Footprint Tibet handbook doesn't say a lot about the sites here. I think this is because this area was and is subject to so much cultural suppression by the Chinese government in Tibet; a lot of the information has not become available outside Tibet until recently. Anyway, two as one we can look for some recordings of the different instruments which must be fascinating. It must be unbelievably difficult to blow those giant tunchen horns at 4050 meters, over 13000 feet! Two as one we've noticed a few mistakes on the Tibetan name for the Yangtze Dri chu on the website. We'll fix them later. There are a lot of monasteries here. Unlike central Tibet most are smaller with at most a few hundred monks as opposed to Ganden, for example that had, if I remember, about 20,000! There are a lot more lineages represented nearby one another here though. There were monks that studied in several lineages here. I've learned Patrul Rinpoche was actually one of these. One of the texts he often preferred to expound upon was the Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva. This is because in fact he was the Bodhisattva Shantideva so of course he was able to comment with particular insight on the text since he had written it over a thousand years earlier! 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!)