Manaslu & Tsum Valley, Day 13, Lho – Samagaun

The blue mountain

is the father of the white cloud

The white cloud is the son of

the blue mountain.

 

All day long they depend on each other

without being dependent on each other

the white cloud is always the white cloud

the blue mountain is always

the blue mountain.

 

                           Tozan

 

 

Pungyen Gompa is the highlight of our day.  This monastery,

located in a remote mountain valley, was destroyed by an

avalanche after a Japanese expedition tried in 1953 to be the first

to climb Manaslu. People believed that the avalanche and many

other bad things that happened that year were punishments by

the Gods residing in the mountain for being disturbed. The

monastery was rebuilt by the Japanese.

 

 

 

Past destruction
Past destruction

 

 

 

New bridge
New bridge

 

 

Path to the high mountain valley
Path to the high mountain valley

 

 

Pungyen Gompa
Pungyen Gompa

 

 

Lighting a butter lamp
Butter lamps

 

 

Lightening butter lamps in front of Buddha statues
Lightening butter lamps in front of Buddha statues

 

 

 

 

Chorten with prayer flags in the mist
Chorten with prayer flags in the mist

 

 

Yaks grazing
Yaks grazing

 

 

Curious yak
Curious yak

 

 

 

 

 

gwwien
gwwienhttps://simplyjustwalking.com
Born and raised in a village along the Danube in Austria, Traude Wild soon ventured out into the world. After a two-year program for tourism in Klesheim/Salzburg, she spent nearly a year in South Africa and Namibia. By returning back to Austria, she acquired a Master of Economics at the University of Vienna. After moving to the United States with her four children, she studied Art History at Arizona State University and stayed in the United States for fourteen years. Here, she was teaching Art History in several Universities like Webster University and University of Missouri-St. Louis. Now, she lives partially in Arizona and Vienna and works together with her husband for the University of South-Carolina, Moore School of business as Adjunct Professor organising and leading Study tours in Central Europe. She also teaches at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Since 1999, she is practicing Zen meditation in the lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She loves to hike and to write and is a student of Natalie Goldberg. During her often many weeks long hikes she brings her awareness into the Here and Now, describing her experiences in an authentic way. She loves to walk pilgrimages. The longest hike so far was the 1,400 km long 88 Temple pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan in 2016.

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