Travels
I got up early and headed into central Leh, where I spotted a number of the local women heading for a temple tucked back off of one of the main streets. I waited for about two hours there as a small crowd gradually gathered, and we were all rewarded with very close proximity to this amazing man. For once in my life, I was speechless.
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The Dalai Lama
- "I could have reached over and pinched him
- on the cheek. He probably would've smiled
- and thanked me. He's a very gracious man."
While I was there in August 2009, the Dalai Lama visited Leh, Ladakh (this is in the eastern part of Jammu & Kashmir, the northernmost province of India, a rather turbulent and contentious region which is surrounded on three sides by Pakistan, China and Tibet). Everyone knew his automobile would be passing through town. There were banners and the streets had been swept the night before.
I got up early and headed into central Leh, where I spotted a number of the local women heading for a temple tucked back off of one of the main streets. I waited for about two hours there as a small crowd gradually gathered, and we were all rewarded with very close proximity to this amazing man. For once in my life, I was speechless.- "I could have reached over and pinched him
- on the cheek. He probably would've smiled
- and thanked me. He's a very gracious man."
While I was there in August 2009, the Dalai Lama visited Leh, Ladakh (this is in the eastern part of Jammu & Kashmir, the northernmost province of India, a rather turbulent and contentious region which is surrounded on three sides by Pakistan, China and Tibet). Everyone knew his automobile would be passing through town. There were banners and the streets had been swept the night before.
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