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November 29, 2004Enlightened PotatoesI'm so happy being in Nepal, even if I don't do my ISP at all, or it flops, or whatever, I'm happy simply existing like a character from the unbearable lightness of being or the stranger. There's a certain intoxicating...Read this update November 28, 2004AlexI had an interesting, though long discussion with a guy friend of Kelly's from Argentina, Alex. We talked a lot about Bon and he gave me the name - kyabdor rinpoche - of a german nyingma practitioner. He supposedly practices...Read this update November 27, 2004Tritsen NorbutseLopon Tenzin Namdak will be at the monastery tomorrow, but only for 5 days which makes me worried he won't have much time to answer my questions. I kind of wish I was back in Dolanji only because life was...Read this update November 26, 2004Deliverance from Evilso okay when we last left off, our hero was left stranded in Dolanji, despairing about his laptop and loneliness. So Wednesday morning I got a taxi through Dhondup per mahi's recommendation of going a day early to try on...Read this update November 24, 2004Highs and Lows in IndiaI finished 20,000 leagues under the sea last night, so I have nothing new to read now. Talk about an end-weighted book, all the action is in the last 50 pgs. It seems the beehive has set itself up next...Read this update November 20, 2004flow of researchI feel that I am finally getting a little bit of the flow of conducting research. It is slow, yes, but continual, sometimes in an unpredictable way. Like this morning I woke up at 6 am with a burning question...Read this update November 19, 2004Thank God for the Brits!I forgot how rich Tibetans are in India. while in Tibet you begin to think that almost all Tibetans have less than everyone else. In India, though, the tibetans are in the upper class with good buildings, good education and...Read this update How a place affects youDolanji is pretty remote from civilization though there are signs it is growing - both the monastery, which is building more buildings and the shops, two convenience stores, a restaurant of sorts and a cybercafe, not to mention the guesthouse,...Read this update November 18, 2004What's Dolanji?I'd like to note that for the record I stated specifically that I would be traveling to shimla and from there, Dolanji. Meanwhile, neither pam nor Manu raised any questions about the fact that Dolanji is apparently 23 km south...Read this update November 17, 2004Traveling to DolanjiTraveling to Dolanji seems sketchy at best. I'm on the train now to Kalka, which left New Delhi at 6 am. I think by 10:30 we'll be in Kalka and the train leaves for Shimla at 12:10. the cockroaches that...Read this update November 16, 2004Farewell DelhiLooking at the pictures of the potala and everest on the walls of the restaurant seem so strange - everything from Tibet seems, already, to be a dream - and yet when I look at the picture I know for...Read this update November 14, 2004Tibetan SettlementWe flew to Delhi last night on royal nepal which was fine, though not as good as Thai. We got in and stressed a while about who was going where and where peoples' butts were. Once we finally figured all...Read this update November 12, 2004DiwaliToday was a hindu festival which was really pretty tonight with all of the lit candles and x-mas-tune-playing x-mas lights, but there's a lot of noise with it. It reminds me a lot of halloween for some reason, perhaps...Read this update November 06, 2004good morning from ShigatseI am luxuriating in a hot bath in shigatse, the second biggest city in Tibet. Pretty random place right? so imagine me in my own little tibet bubble with my SIT group, going to check my e-mail when an asian...Read this update November 03, 2004and Kerry losesI really hope John Kerry wins the election - I had a fitful sleep all last night about it. I'll know in about an hour theoretically, assuming nothing got screwed up... Breanna and I were talking in her tent last...Read this update November 01, 2004Planning the next 8 years of my lifeYesterday while interviewing the Tibetan girl this chinese guy was hanging out there and he offered me a cigarette in chinese and it was one of the weirdest language experiences of my life. I understood what he said, sub-consciously from...Read this update Caves of DrakyulToday we went to the caves of Drakyul where Padmasambhava meditated for 3 yrs 3 mos 3 wks and 3 days. The hike up was intense and included several snow falls. The town at the bottom however was like a...Read this update |
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