Another Day in Derhadun

Yesterday we had a great day visiting two shedras in the Derhadun area. Khenpo has been giving away sets of his on Khenpo Zhenga at each of the monestaries or to lamas that he meets. We started the bus trip in Delhi with about 40 sets of the 13 volume book. We are down to just a few sets now.

The highlight yesterday was meeting the tulku of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, a young boy born in January 2002 in Oakland, California to Tibetan parents. His name is Dorje Tashi. He's very sweet and gave blessings to each of us as we offered him kataks. He was very composed and sat with us while we had adult conversations around the table. His parents fed us all and were very kind to Khenpo, treating him as a revered guest. Khenpo had assisted Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche on the preparation of his book on Nyingma masters, and developed a close relationship with him during those months. At the end of the evening, Khenpo led a practice in the family shrine room.

Last night when we got back after dark, we found that the Princess had erected a 40'x40' sun shade tent. I believe this is a local Indian wedding style tent. It has no sides, and they laid out green exterior carpet inside and set up a PA system and throne inside. Late last night, most of us met in the shrine room at about 11:30 PM and Khenpo lead an hour long recap discussion of everything good and bad that had happened to us so far, to help us not forget. I'd love to recount more about what has happened, but frankly there has not been time to sit at a computer and especially it has been hard to get online.

Today after breakfast on the roof with the pilgrims, Khenpo gave a teaching in the tent to Tibetans while Hollee and I walked to the Internet cafe to try to submit our bag claims to British Airways and check email.

This morning I had a scare with the PowerBook. The internal drive started making a clicking sound right after I first got it hooked up to an external drive I had brought along to use for backups. Now it's not booting, and the internal drive has the only copies of all my photos (and some other people's photos as well). Keeping my fingers crossed I can get it to spin up again and make a copy of all the amazing images I've captured.

I need to stop now to go meet everyone at the bus so that we can go meet His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, supreme head of the Sakya School.