Continuing with my Panoramic Travelogues of Ladakh. Here is the beautiful Diskit Monastery, perched alongside the breathtaking Nubra Valley. Diskit Monastery also known as Deskit Gompa or Diskit Gompa is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh. It belongs to the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) sect of Tibetan Buddhism. On of … Read more
Took this video of the panoramic View of Leh from Shanti Stupa. Dont miss the chants recorded in the background along with the video
In Osamu Tezuka‘s Buddha, a young Siddhartha faces ordeals in the forest of Uravela. Seeking to understand suffering he pushes his body to the limits of survival. As he does this his peers keep repeating that death due to an ordeal is the ultimate fruit that one can get. To this Siddhartha keeps repeating that … Read more
Bhutan drived an urge inside me to delve deeper into Buddhism. A combination of that urge and working on my 12 book project(reading a book every month) for this year, I first picked up “An Introduction to the Teachings and Philosophy of the Dalai Lama in His Own Words” and now started reading Buddha, series … Read more
I think it was Buddha that said that every human being must complete two journeys to have led a fulfilling life. The two journeys that he spoke about are the outer journey and the inner journey. The outer journey is the journey of discovering the universe around us. It encompasses the learning of the ways … Read more