Dalai Lama comes to Ulaanbaatar: The Dalai Lama is in town this week and today he is holding a ceremony in the Nadaam stadium. Buddhism is the majority religion in Mongolia, so this is a very special occassion. Apparently the Dalai Lama has been to Mongolia before, and one of my students told me that his biggest message is that people should not drink so much vodka. Very practical. Unfortunately, todays ceremony was spoken in Tibetan and then translated into Mongolian, so I was not able to access any spiritual enlightenment...
2 comments:
Julia:
You are so lucky! Is there any way you can find out what he said???
I doubt that i would be able to get a copy of what he said. but in some ways, that doesn't matter. he has a very luminous presence which i experienced and i think for me being amongst a crowd of people who were all so reverent made it an memorable experience. however i did feel a little strange because i wanted to feel that this was a profound experience, but i just didn't. because i didn't understand the rituals and the language... i just felt curious and that was a bit isolating. i felt like somehow i was being disrespectful being there.
Post a Comment