Beads for monks
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Monks have to haggle in the market, too
In the market leading up to Dharamshala’s Namgyal Monastery, the spiritual home of the Dalai Lama in exile, a fierce debate breaks out, not over theology or discipline, but the price of prayer beads.
Tags: beads, buddhism, dalai lama, dharamshala, india, market, monk, photography, prayer, religion
Majestic views from Upper Dharamshala
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Breathe free
With a soundtrack of chanting monks, a permanent Tibetan refugee population and backdrop of the Himalayas, Upper Dharamshala — known to tourists as McLeod Ganj — is enchanting. This view comes from the Dalai Lama’s monastery, the Namgyal Monastery.
Tags: dalai lama, dharamshala, himalaya, india, monastery, monk, mountains, photography, tibet, tourism
Citizen journalism, old-school
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Words for a people suppressed
The Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in Darjeeling proudly displays the old World War II-era hand press that printed the Tibetan Freedom newspaper for 32 years. The newspaper was started on the advice of the Dalai Llama, exiled to India, to spread word of Tibetans, their identity and their struggle against Chinese control.
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Tags: china, dalai lama, darjeeling, india, journalism, photography, press, printing, tibet, tibetan refugee self help center
These are times of tall men and short character
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
On a wall at the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center in Darjeeling
Click the photo for a larger image. I’ve retyped below (with reasonable punctuation) for better reading.
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Tags: dalai lama, darjeeling, emerging nations, india, philosophy, refugee, tibet
