14 September 2011

Lama Lhundrup

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News arrives. Lama Lhundrup, the much loved Abbot of Kopan Monastery, Nepal, has died.
Photos and an account here :
The Last Days on Earth
by Venerable Roger Kunsang
In 1988 your correspondent had the good fortune to be at Kopan Monastery over several months. Lama Lhundrup registered deeply. From that time, here he is with Lama Osel at his side making offering prayers at the 12th century ruins of the great monastic university Nalanda, India.



At our door here, we've a tulip also in its last days of radiance. Petals wider each day, soon they will fall away. Projection-space of the Dutch mania. Projection-space colours of that great monk's robes.

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