Butter Art
For Tibetan Buddhist monks and laity, artistic butter designs, known as torma or tsepdro, take on a spiritual role. Traditionally made using yak butter mixed with barley flour and coloring...
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Dalai Lama in Ladakh India
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be in Ladakh this July, when we will be on tour there! He will confer the Kalachakra Initiation from July 10 to 13. On July...
Entering Spiti Valley
The name “Spiti” means “The middle land”, i.e. the land between Tibet and India. There are two ways to enter Spiti valley, from the southern end via Kinnaur valley, or...
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Shiva Temple
The road to Spiti via the Kinnaur valley is so close to the Tibetan border that we need to obtain special permits to travel on it. There are several barriers...
