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  • … for printing wallpapers, and an tibetan-looking chime, and a set of tibetan prayer flags. I made Laura a scarlet-and-gray pillow, and now I feel bad that it was kind of cheap because she and James’ gifts are so awesome… =/ But otherwise I didn’t really know what to get her and I know she likes …

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  • It’s still winter, but we can already start planning and making a few handmade prayer flags to hang in the garden. From the website: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/make-a-prayer-flag-how-to.html “Spring is here, and the winds of change are blowing; the sky fills with birds and returning life …

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  • With buildings freshly painted, evergreen trees in the ground and pathways glistening with white cement, my teacher Thrangu Rinpoche consecrated a monastery complex fifteen years in the making. It sits 7,000 feet in the air, on a sacred hill in the blessedly pollution free outskirt of Kathmandu …

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  • … the big workout will have to wait for the weekend. Poop, I say! IN other news, I have replaced the Tibetan prayer flags that shredded into the wind with this Kindred Spirits in W-S is clearing out stock and I got it on sale. And Evil Chuck brought Ben and Jerry’s Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice Cream …

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  • … shared with two friends from Shillong I can see potted plants on the balcony along with a few Tibetan prayer flags, and I think maybe there’s someone inside that flat reading Jet City Woman and chuckling at its descriptions of the Tibetan colony at Majnu ka Tila. A week later, in the third week of May …

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  • … across the city and through the cobblestone streets making prayer flags flutter on the housetops and bells tinkle on the golden temple roofs. Intermittently the gods of the air hurled down fistfuls of hailstones, peppering the Potala-the thousand room stone palace of the Dalai Lama-and the lesser …

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  • Imagine the police arriving at your studio to arrest you for making a woodblock print of your national flag. That’s what happened to Paljor Norbu, an 81 year old Tibetan printmaker last October. The Chinese occupation of Tibet is obviously sinking to new depths to protect their illegal control …

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  • … 3,800m: 6-7 hrs. Wake up early and trek becomes steep immediately after leaving Thorong Phedi, and takes four to five hours from Thorong Phedi to the pass. Thorong-La pass with its traditional Chorten prayer flags is at an elevation of 5,416 m. which is the highest point of this trip. The views …

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  • From Mechak.org (Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art) What is this? Let that Moment Become Eternal! New Works by the Tibetan Artist Losang Gyatso by Woeser Likely they had known that that moment would appear not only on televisions in many countries but also through the omnipresent internet …

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  • … lamp and some small Tibetan prayer flags hanging on one wall. The connecting room has a grand piano and a small black leather love seat. The front room has a nice big white couch, a dark wood bench used as a coffee table and a rocking chair. Housemate takes the rocking chair and I sit on the couch …