Tian Yuan Li Jing Lhasa

... and poor Chinese we ended up near the temple area of Jokhana square but failed to find a recommended restaurant from Meema. The streets were quite sparsely populated but there were enough people in traditional Tibetan clothes to see we were in such a different place from the rest of China. However the bright modern shops of designer labels along the main roads made us aware this city had changed. In the older Barkhor area more traditional older style shops remained thankfully. As ...

... visitors don't like it, but I liked it. It really filled me up. I can see why they drink so much of it. It really seemed to instantly warm me up and give me energy. I watched the woman prepare it, and asked her to teach, because I'd never seen anything like it. They put boiling tea, salt, and butter into a thin churn, and then churned it all together. It took some work, but was worth it. After dinner, they showed me some of ...

... King Gampo in order to placate his new Nepali wife. She brought a Buddha image from Nepal when she became one of his five wives and needed a place of worship so like a good husband he obliged.<br><br>The Cultural Revolution left its mark and a fair proportion of the Temple has been restored. Traditional methods were used to rebuild, repaint and re-plaster so it is very difficult to see the old from the new. Add to this the smoke from hundreds of butter fires and things just seem to ...

... von einem "Gery-Typen" (für alle, die wissen was ich meine ;-) )<br><br>Kleiner Spaziergang in die Umgebung und jetzt wieder im Hotel.<br>Bis ich begonnen hab zu essen hatte ich noch ziemlichen Hunger, der war aber nach einem Bissen gestillt..... :-( Auch Auswirkungen der Höhe ( Appetitlosigkeit ).<br>Wird wahrscheinlich wieder eine ziemlich unruhige Nacht werden - wenn ich mich so an meine erste Nacht in Nepal erinnere.... naja, wird schon..<br><br>allsdern, bis dann

... It has a painting of the protectors - a Lion and a Tiger at the bottom of the staircase. The first room we went into on the 2nd floor had a mural of the King, Buddha and Potala Palace. There is also a mural of monkeys which tells the legend of the history of the Tibetan people. Here is the Coles Notes version of the story - a monkey hooked up with a demon after receiving a blessing from Avalokiteshvara. They had 6 sons and left them to grow up in the forest. They ...

... ein Staendchen in Landessprache gebracht hatten (die Amerikaner hatten abgelehnt, weil sie keins kannten), sollten wir auch eins auf Deutsch beisteuern. Nachdem unsere verstuemmelte Version von "Hoch soll sie leben" eher ein peinlicher Reinfall war, konnten wir dann aber doch noch mit dem "Hochlebenlassen" (inkl. Stuhl) erfolgreich punkten. Danach brachten die Tibeter noch eine Tanzeinlage und es gab Tsampa (eine Art rohenGersten-Butter-Teig) den nicht wirklich jemand wollte ...

... in Tibetan Buddhism, the Panchen Lama. The 10th Panchen Lama was already appointed by the Chinese rather than selected through the traditional methods, but rehabilitated himself in the eyes of the Tibetans by writing a 70.000 character manifesto to Mao Tse Dong outlining the atrocities of the Chinese against Tibetans. Mao then countered that he was welcome to be the head of all Buddhists if he denounced the Dalai Lama which he didn't and in turn was improsoned and ...

... and we made it through o.k. (our group is just the two of us). and then we got our bags and then through screening again. We didn't get our baggage tags in Kathmandu, so on our way out we were approached by two security plain clothed guys who checked our ticket with out baggage tags. At the gate was two men standing with a card with our names on it. Great to see them.

... lama Manlungpa wrote of passing through the Kingdom of Li, famous for its jade. That was not hard to identify: the ancient jade markets of India, Nepal and Tibet were all supplied by a single source, a riverbed outside modern Hotan. Mud walls were all that remained of Li, but hundreds of men, mostly Uighurs, were still working the riverbed for jade. They are the descendants of the Paksik mentioned by Rinpungpa, the horsemen in quilted cotton jackets and white turbans. The Uighurs have ...