India

McLeod Ganj offers many opportunities to learn things. Last week I went to a Tibetan cooking class. The class is taught by a monk named Ngawa in his small home. The ‘kitchen’ is a table with burners on it wedged in the corner next to the bed. One sits on the [...]

My roommate Sonam. He has lived in India for 15 years, and has been a monk since the age of 9. Usually he lives at a monastary Mysore in the South. He has come to Dharamsala to study English. On this day he invited me to his monastary to hear a [...]

My room is next to the Tibetan kindergarten. I wake to the sounds of their morning songs around 6:30 in the morning. Again in the afternoon I hear them I hear them singing: today “Old MacDonald” and “Are You Sleeping…” Around 4:00 there is a flood of kids in blue uniforms running [...]