Tag: Kathmandu

  • PRAYER FOR NEPAL

      Bhaktapur. Kathmandu. Lamjung. Shermatang. Lean closer. Can you hear the soul of Nepal? It whispers. Cries. Prays: Our heart lies buried in the rubble, in stones turned to sand. Oh, humanity, come to our time of fire! Lift every stone. Lay your hands upon our valley. Dig with us. Dig as we retrieve our…

  • LEARNING A LANGUAGE

                                                                                                          Me with a rather distracted-looking…

  • LAMA NGAKPA: DIVINATION BY DICE

       Lama Ngakpa in his room Keeping an open mind, I decide I would like to have my prospects foretold by a Lama.  The idea of rolling the dice, reading the tarot, seeing angels in tea leaves, stirring the entrails of a dead goat, laying silver on the palm of a chiromancer or allying the state…

  • THE THREE INTERRELATED Ds

    The Three Interrelated Ds: Death, Dan, Development                                                           A funeral procession in Boudha, Kathmandu   Death is the theme of today. Mark died ten days ago in a dramatic incident on the then…