Tag: Nepal

  • 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…