Saturday, March 8, 2008

Gaden Shartse monks

The Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastary are touring the US. I saw them today in Encinitas at the E Street Cafe. They made a sand mandala and the llama gave a talk.

The Chinese destroyed the Gaden Shartse monastary in Tibet in 1959 and killed thousands of the monks. A few escaped, survived, and rebuilt in exile in southern India.

The Tibetans refuse to fight the Chinese. They believe fighting back is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Each war contains the seeds of the next war. Each person is the cause of everything that happens to him.

http://gadenshartsetour.org/History of Gaden Shartse.htm
map Mundgod, India

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