delicate

!!

Dancing in the street

They all just learned the dance.

a stoic and a kid in the rain

The road became like a river after a while. Too bad the canoe didn't have paddles.

So funny I had to take a picture… [from the Vancouver Province]

Galena to Shelter Ferry [sorry about the hand!]

This ferry ride was a little of a car wash. Unusually rough [and refreshing] conditions for an inland ferry.

embers

Car camping on the way to Revelstoke

A platter full of tsa tsas

Yarrow, or is it Tansy?

Cottonwood Falls Park, Saturday afternoon - pot smoke, hula hoops, and drumming

parking lot

Tim & Sally's field

Technophile I am.

And so is my friend Tom who gave it to me.

Fisherman's Picnic Table?

Summertime and the living is easy…

Floating down the Slocan River…

Perhaps in the sock drawer?

Girl & baby - Bodhgaya

McKinley

A photo from thirteen years ago when in the foot"hills" of Mt. McKinley. That's my brother John.

A personality revealing question…

Is this glass 100% empty or 0% full?

The things that fascinate you when you're meditating all day…

Bloomin' Fireweed [say with British accent]

Tibetan-style monks meditating

Some of them may be Nepalese or Indian…

Used ford for sale

Red-breasted Nuthatch

In meditation retreat

Lost

My nephew Koji at 1 year, 1 day

A glimpse of the Rockies

Not too long ago…

-40°C

The Bodhisattva of Compassion

This statue is at the Bodhgaya stupa. Outside the small temple are perhaps twenty monks all meditating and reciting 'om mani padme hum". Very nice atmosphere!

Bodhgaya Market

Green Tara

Here is a picture of the Green Tara image built into the Bodhgaya stupa. It is said to have great blessing power.

My new gau

A gau is kind of a portable Tibetan-style shrine. I bought it in Bodhgaya, India the main Buddhist pilgrimage place. The Buddha inside it was bought in L.A. at the same time that I took monks vows in 1988 and was blessed by Kalu Rinpoche.

Another opportunity to give

No lights!

Judging by the color and style of robes I would say this is a fully-ordained Thai Buddhist Monk. Let me know if I'm wrong!

Asking- Bodhgaya, India

I gave her a hearty chunk of bread and she was very pleased.

dharma food

Tibetan-style bread baked with the imprint of an endless knot.

Break time

That's pollution not snow

Another mode of transport.

Reading the Kangyur [words of the Buddha]

The Kangyur is a collection of books that can only be read in a day if the job is shared by many people. So, each of the monks has a few pages that they read in unison. It gets done in about half an hour this way.

Auto-rickshaw with monk

Back in Canada but more India pictures for a while.

Backpack Shmackpack

I regret

... to inform regular blog viewers that my camera has picked up a virus and I can't access the pictures on it right now. I'll sort it out when I get home and start posting again then. In the meantime happy holidays from Bodhgaya!

Part of the assembly at the Kagyu Monlam

i met a tourist on the way to school

Saifur asks me to critique his portfolio

First Day in India [this time]

Fields from the plane on the way to Kolkata

... and traffic on the taxi ride into town.

Horror Show

horror show mannequin freaks me out every time.

Body Warp anyone?

I like how in Thailand everyone takes off their shoes before entering.

Thai sunsets don't match the ones in the far north

http://dondrup.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post.html

Sunlight through bamboo and mosquito netting