INDIA | Tuesday, 27 Aug 2013 | Views [2490] | Comments [1]
The Dalai Lama has just returned from a month’s meditation retreat in Ladakh. I must say, it was good to think of him there, having the time to do some quiet meditation after a fairly hectic few months of foreign travel which even took him to Australia ... Read more >
Tags: dalai lama, dharamsala, dharamshala, teachings, tibet, tibetans
INDIA | Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | Views [1109]
In 2010 and 2012 I spent three months (that's the longest visa I could get) teaching English as a volunteer at Tibet Charity in Dharamshala, India. My students were mostly Tibetans. Dharamshala is a community dominated by Tibetans in exile, ... Read more >
Tags: dalai lama, dharamsala, dharamshala, library, monkeys, monks, teaching, tibet, yeti
INDIA | Saturday, 31 Mar 2012 | Views [2613]
This story appears in a slightly different form in my new book "The Yeti in the Library" which is on sale in paperback - contact me by email for details - and on Kindle and verious other e-book sites. www.goodreads.com/author/show/6433635.Gill_Winter ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, jamphel yeshi, self-immolation, tibet
