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Bir
Travel Blogs from Bir, India
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More monsoon
Hi everyone.Thanks to all who have left comments. Its nice to hear from people at home. Those who haven't left comments please feel free.... Unfortunately the weather here is still monsoon.It.s a mad race for the take off in the mornings before the ...
Flying in Bir
Sorry for the.spelling for those who complained on the last entry. No spell check and I was saving my battery. Now in Bir in himachel pradesh.Beautiful mountains and flying. Wifi is sparse here and this is first time I hsve managed to find any working ...
Great flying at last!
... Cant upload photos or do facebook but enough to keep in touch and even skype......that, may sound rediculous but this is incredible India! Off to mumbai tommorow starting with a 7 hour taxi ride. A flight to mumbai then a kip overnight in departures ...
Karmapa and Journey to Bir
... , a power cut at large, we were lucky to find an auto rickshaw to take us the last little bit of the way. All was dark in Bir, but there were young men hanging about and one pointed out to us a guest house just on the main road where we had alighted, the ...
Bir
Hey all Just finished an awesome week long teaching course in Bir (a small Tibetan settlement near Dharamsala) from Tai Situ Rinpoche which was great but the only thing is it comes with a 2 hour a day meditation commitment, oh well least it ...
Sakya Temple and Paragliders
... ten year visa, easy for Americans, not so for Europeans, an advantage which he reckoned was due to Microsoft and its workforce in India. The Gangchen Zompa was up on a terrace just acrosst the road from where our guest house room was on its own terrace. ...
Tashi Delek from Bir!
... the family for talking to an illegal refugee. There's also a branch of the TCV school in Bir for Tibetan refugee children who escaped to India without their parents. During one of the school breaks, two brothers (12 and 14 years) stayed with ...
Inspired by Mona
I spent the last two days at Tashi Jong Monastery, where the 9th Kamtrul Rinpoche is based. It's also within sight of a Nunnery which is famous for housing one of the first Western nuns, a Brit with the refuge name Tenzin Palmo, who completed a 12 ...
Prayers on Sherabling Hill
... some prayers of my own on that hillside. I had in my pocket a picture of my uncle Mo whose ancestors originated from India. I wanted to leave a string of prayer flags here for Moni Mo, so the wind on the hill could disperse mine and my whole ...
Eine Nacht in Bir
... unzählige Mantras. Später genossen wir die friedliche Athmosphäre im Norling Café und liesen den Tag ausklingen. Nachdem wir gestern Bir von unten sahen, wollte vor allem Eva Bir auch von oben bewundern und so ging es gegen 12 Uhr hinauf nach ...
Back in Bir as a stop over
Just had to pick up that Longchempa thangka. Plus I needed to break up the trip back to Dharamsala. The driver was making me carsick. It took almost 3 hours to get to Tso Pema, but just 2 to get back. The driver was pushing ...
They just kept getting better
... stick in my mind. I tried to research, but didn't get far. Does anyone know? The other major monastery in Bir owns the modest guesthouse I stayed at. Neten Choekling is the monastery where my guru, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, spent much of ...
BirTibetan Colony
... of Tibetans, with the Indian taxi drivers just across the road from our guest house, probably the noisiest rowdiest part of Bir; There were small and simple Tibetan cafes with balconies in different directions. It was delightful to see the Buddhist monks ...
Staying in our Room
This was a telethon day, one might say, as we did nothing but watch films. All morning it rained, then George was not well, I think it may have been one of the artificially flvoured milks. He slept for ages and then woke up vomiting. So we couldn't get ...
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