Saturday, December 4, 2010

Pharping, Nepal

Padmasambhava's Cave

Padmasambhava's handprint

Spontaniously manifesting Tara

Stupa at Tharig Monastery with 1000 stupas, and 1000 Guru Rinpoche statues inside.

Nepalese/Indian swing set


Larry, Colin and new friend Kunga

Padmasambhava's cave

prayer flags in PharpingI almost forgot about Pharping in Nepal. Pharping is this beautiful villiage in the Kathmandu valley, which in itself is worth seeing, we traveled there to see Buddhist Holy places like Padmasambhava's caves, with his handprint melded into the rock on the outside of the cave , The  Vajrayogini Temple, and The spontaniously manifested Tara formation in a special cave as well as  a Sakya monastery( Tharig) we were lucky to have a very close friend of Venerable Lekshey la named Kunga to guide us.