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  I have come to ladakh to build websites for the nuns here. Initially it was to be one website for the LNA but that has proliferated into one for the LNA, a local intranet for the LNA and a website each for two other independent nunneries. The LNA site is almost complete and can be seen at http:///www.ladakhnunsassociation.org
There are a lot of very young nuns living here at the LNA's nunnery. Most of them [around 20 ] are about 12 years old and are being provided with an education. There is a smaller group of 10 or so young adult nuns who are training as Amchi's, which are traditional Tibetan medicine practitioners. There are also half a dozen or so older nuns who have finished their education and their trainining as Amchi's and who are working in the LNA's Amchi health clinics. Here [right] you can see Sonam and Youdon on their way [with Marianne and I] to the Buddhas Birthday celebrations in Leh - the capital city of Ladakh. - The celebrations were held at the polo grounds.
The picture on the left is [left to right] Sonam, Lhamo and Angmo three of the young adult nuns. Angmo has just finished her PHd; she and both Sonam and Lhamo are fully qualified Amchi doctors.
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 And so to Ladakh - high in the Himalayas of North India.
The plane arrives around 11.30 am and Mariiane and I are met at the airport by Sonam and Youdon from the Ladakh Nuns Association. I am staying at their nunnery in south Leh, but my mind is in a fog as I leave the airport. The 90 minute flight wasn't particularly arduous, but I feel like I have just done a full day's work.
Later I am told that this is part of the effect of high altitude. The first three days in Ladakh are spent resting and sleeping - going for breakfast leaves me quite exhausted, and I am glad I have planned to be here two months.
It will not be the first time I think that, not by a long shot.
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Travel to India - ultimate destination Ladakh.
So here I am in Delhi and of course its hot hot hot :) but no so bad 'cos my room has a water cooled 'airconditioner'.
Marianne picked me up from the airport late Thursday night - and wasn't I green around the gills! Wow! such a bumpy landing! People would have paid money for that ride at Disneyland. And we all arrived safe and sound on the blessed ground. Marianne took me to a Tibetan guest house on the outskirts of Delhi called "New Sakya House".
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Maggie's Blog of Dhamma Travels in SE Asia |
Maggie'sTravel Blog
hi from Maggie to everyone who has come to read my page. This blog is to track my Dhamma travels through Asia : from Nov28 2009 to Jan 28 2010.
My goals on starting out :
- to investigate places to practice for longer, with a view to finding somewhere suitable .
- to make some dhamma friends
- to engage in meditation practice
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I went to Thailand to do a meditation retreat at Wat Kow Tahm with Steve and Rosemary Wiseman for three weeks.
Ten years ago Steve and Rosemary were among my first Buddhist meditation teachers. They teach "wise reflection" as an antidote to the toxic thinking that we westerners usually engage in habitually. The kind of thinking where we beat ourselves for being not good enough, or we criticise and judge others such as our parents, teachers, friends, and coworkers.
This toxic thinking results in the endemic dissatisfaction and depression that we see so much of in our society. Wise reflection reminds us to remember how lucky we are to have so much when so many have so little; amongst other things.
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