Dang Zang

Comment on Wikileaks
A good comment on the Wikileaks release of papers about Afghanistan at http://www.truth-out.org/national-insecurity-afraid-truth61841 […]
Festival of Hunger and Thirst
Filatiera, festival […]
About the place
How nice it is here! […]
Filling in
I rather doubt if I will ever have time (and I doubt if you would be interested) to describe the whole process of getting here, so here are just a few pictures to give an impression. First of all, here is the container being filled up in Sydney with the possessions, some of which are […]
Hunting dogs
What to say? There are hunting dogs here. […]
Greyhound transport
Be very sure the greyhound has room if the journey is at all long […]
Landed and connected
Arrived in Tuscany and connected to the net! […]
Slow activity
Yes, things have been very slow here. I’ve been preparing to move across the world again, and the move is now due to happen in the next few days. I should resurface in the “land of the moon”, Lunigiana, the northern tip of Tuscany, in one or two weeks time, and I hope that things will […]
Good experience after all
This is the coda to our visit to the Opera Bar. The management had been sufficiently disturbed by our experience on that occasion that they sent us a voucher for $100! The other day we saw a couple of visitors to Sydney, which was the last leg of their half-world cruise. We decided to take […]
Barnaby Joyce – good grief!
Barnaby Joyce could not pass an arithmetic exam […]

Wednesday July 8th, 2009. Posted by Alex W:

Benchen

Home monastery of Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche, Tenga Rinpoche and Chime Rinpoche. Looks a bit more spruce than when I was there in ’92!

Benchen 2005

The picture was sent out as a digital new-year card from Marpa House a year ago – thanks!