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Book Talk: The Last Time I Saw Tibet; Mahatirtha Ke Antim Yatri

Posted on January 14, 2018 by bNomadic

A first for me on bNomadic, this time through this post I’ll share my views on two books – The Last Time I Saw Tibet and Mahatirtha Ke Antim Yatri – which are, in fact, translation of the same book…

Category: Books, Talks and Rants Tags: adventure, bimal dey, Book, China, Dalai Lama, Gangtok, Kailash Mansarovar, Lhasa, mahatirth ke antim yatri, Nepal, review, Sikkim, the last time i saw tibet, Tibet, Travelogue

The relocated abbey of ancient Tibetan Bon Religion at Dolanji

Posted on September 24, 2015 by bNomadic

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Last weekend, while on way to the peach valley of Rajgarh, I visited the Menri Monastery (1195m), situated at village Dolanji in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. Located within a comfortable reach of Chandigarh, the region has always been a…

Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels Tags: Blog, Bon, Bonpo, Chandigarh, Dalai Lama, Dolanji, Himachal, Lhasa, Menri, Monastery, Pradesh, Rajgarh, Religious, Senrab, Solan, Tibet, Tsang

Book Talk: The Sacred Mountain by John Snelling

Posted on April 28, 2015 by bNomadic

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As apparent from the title and book-cover itself, “The Sacred Mountain” is a travel manual to the holiest of mountain regions – the Kailash Mansarovar – located in Tibet trans-Himalayas, which is regarded sacred by followers of no less than…

Category: Books, Talks and Rants Tags: Book, China, Dalai Lama, Darchen, Himalayas, John Snelling, Kailash, Lipulekh, Mansarovar, Pilgrimage, Pranavananda, review, Sacred Mountain, Taklakot, Tibet, trans-Himalayas, travel

Brush with The Malling

Posted on May 5, 2013 by bNomadic

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The following is a page entry from On Road through the trans-Himalayas. To read complete travel memoirs and trip report, please visit here. Chapter 5 of 22 Previous Post …

Category: Himachal Pradesh, Spiti, Trans-Himalayas, Travels Tags: Chango, Dalai Lama, Gelugpa, Gue, Hangarang, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayas, Hurling, Kaurik, Kinnaur, Lari, Maling, Maling Slide, Manerang, Meditation-caves, Nako, Parechu, Satluj, Sham, Shialkar, Spiti, Sumdo, Sumra, Sutlej, Tabo, Tibet, trans-Himalayas, UNESCO