| Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar (NEW) | RWFG | 5/13/07 9:56 PM | Ladakh - Gompas and Festivals 2012 Cham Dancers at the Hemis Guru Setchu Ladakh is the only Tibetan Buddhist area which did not come under Chinese rule. Because of the vegaries of the Empire of the British-Raj in the 19th century, it has remain |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar RE | Adrian100 | 5/18/07 2:43 PM | This is a very good roundup of info about Ladakh & Zanskar. My only quibble has to do with the statements linking "caravan routes" and "silk route" to the early temples and gompas in this region. Surely, to give a rounded impression of this part of |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar REVISE | Geirsmith | 7/22/07 12:12 PM | Hi, I read with interest the topics about Buddhism in Ladakh. My great-aunt was a missionnary in Yunnan which has nothing to do with this area but is also the same trend of overseas Americans out doing their good in the world. I work on dictionnar |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar RE | Adrian100 | 7/23/07 2:21 PM | I'm not familiar with Ngor. But if it's a Sakya offshoot, I would expect the Sakya pontiff, Sakya Trizin, to have helpful info. Your lama from Matho should know where he's currently located -- at the Sakya Centre in Dehra Dun, perhaps. Salutations, |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar RE | Geirsmith | 7/24/07 2:20 AM | Hello both Adrian and Rolf, Very happy to get your feedback on my post. Yes, well about the Ngorpa school, you must look at the history of this phenomena. The Tibetan poltical sphere exploded upon the invasion and some of the bits of it landed in |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar RE | Geirsmith | 7/24/07 3:41 AM | Hello again, Now I've just given the general context of what I wanted to reply to your posts now but will give more particular facts here : Rolf, you say " I have been in Sakya and in Shalu, and a friend is engaged in restoring the Sakya gompas in |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar RE | Adrian100 | 8/12/07 1:00 PM | Hello Geir & Rolf A few recollections: In '72 I met Sakya Trizin in Delhi & then visited him in Dehra Dun with some friends. He suggested we go to Lumbini and request a particular wang from Chobgye Rinpoche, his initiation guru. When we got there in |
| Re: Gompas and Festivals in Ladakh and Zangskar (NEW) | RWFG | 11/5/09 11:03 PM | Finally I got around to completely renew this old post - one of my favorites. I replaced photos and added some new ones, changed the locations of place markers and paths to reflect the higher resolution of GE and updated the text. In the interest of |