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…
Me with a rather distracted-looking…
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: 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…