Apr 6, 2007

little tibet-Aug 20th, 2005 at 12:09 PM

Around Dharamsla in Himachal Pradesh are a lot of tibetan refugees. So there are a lot of tibetan monatries and buddhist temples...they are highy decorated with bright paitings and big gold statue of buddha...there are also lots of colored flags hangings all over places...it's nice to feel like in Tibet while still in India...it's like I visited another country without going too far...
i talked a while with a guy at thereception desk in the guest house....a tibetan refugee...very sad story, he was a monk in tibet but fled because of the chinese repression (chinese were regularly arresting monks, and then they forever disappeared), he had no family at all here in India, and did not really like indian cities, because they are dirty and busy...not like chinese ones...also coming from a village with famer parents it was a big cultural shock for him...and he is paid really peanuts: 3000Rs/months...

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