Author Archives: Richard

Well, somehow I managed to delete my pictures of the Golden Temple of Amristar. I know I was deleting ones I didn’t want, but I’m sure I looked at them before doing it. Hmph. All I can say is that … Continue reading →

   Though techically Ladakh is in Kashmir, they are so different they might as well be different states, if not different countries. Ah, and therein lie all the troubles. A few years ago, the people of Jammu and Kashmir voted … Continue reading →

Thank you’s to all of you who gave me feedback about the pictures that had turned to “x’s”. My friend, Renato, who helped set this page up for me noticed it too and is helping me fix the problem. Hopefully, … Continue reading →

I notice when I bring up my site, some of my pictures from back in Himachal Pradesh are just “x”‘s in the upper left corner. Are all my pictures showing up? They used to be there.

It’s a two day drive from Leh to Srinigar. After stopping for the night in Kargil, we left at 4 AM for Srinigar because the one lane road through the pass is open in each direction every other day, and … Continue reading →

Sitting with the monks at the Tiksay monastery was great, though much different than I expected. The only Tibetan Buddhist service I’d ever been to was in San Francisco. It was all business. Everybody was reverent. This morning I had … Continue reading →

There’s a book called “A Cave in the Snow” by Vicki Macenzie.   She a woman who meditated for 12 years in a cave above Manali at 13,200 feet, near Keylong. It’s quite a story. I thought of her as … Continue reading →

Leh is the principle city in Ladakh, which is a little southwestern corner of the Tibetan plateau in Kashmir. It’s only a couple hundred kilometers, but takes two days to get there. I don’t know about internet connections there. Lonely … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked about the people I’ve seen and encountered. That’s such a big task, our cultures are so different. The cultures within the Indian culture are so different. People I’ve met… Well, let me start with my driver, Rakesh. … Continue reading →

Kalpa is the time it will take to lift the veil of ignorance from the world. Once every seven years, Maya flies over the sacred mountains of the Himalaya. With each pass, her veil brushes over the mountaintops. After one … Continue reading →