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| I then headed down the hill and appreciated the nice views. Of course I did head down on the wrong path, but climbed down to the road (a bit of a challenge as the ledge was about six to eight feet high) at the place where the pipe went down (below). |
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| I noticed that outside the shrine when monks were practicing the shoes left by many were the common flip flops from U.S. dollar stores, possibly of Chinese manufacture. There was also construction of a new section of the monastery with a many using a pickaxe to dig a hole and a woman hammering at rocks. |
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| When I got back to the square I met Tenzin and Nawang, the cousin of Lamala's wife, Tacho. Tenzin is the lead driver for our private cars. Nawang said that we would be having lunch a restaurant off the square and that the others had gone for an audience with Rinpoche. I wasn't able to connect with them and instead waited at the square. There were six lovely young women carrying bricks seven at a time on their head about a half block. Women seem to be fine for hard construction labor and dress in their saris for even such work. I made a video of them carrying the bricks. Construction and all work goes at a most liesurely pace in India. They seem (from what I have heard) to be working long hours with increasing prosperity, but will probably need to work faster and more efficiently if they really want to be very prosperous like the Chinese (but does anyone really need that). Below is the restaurant where we had a buffet style lunch before leaving to visit Dongyu Garsal Ling Nunnery. |
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