How Monks Eat: Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim Part 5 of 5
Feb 16, 2024 07:46:38 #
Feb 16, 2024 08:25:00 #
Nice sets of photos, Mel--enjoyed. For me, the fifth set is the winner.
Feb 16, 2024 10:30:42 #
I didn't know they did this. I assume they have to do it every day. Very interesting.
Feb 16, 2024 13:13:16 #
lnl
Loc: SWFL
We were fortunate to see the Buddhist monks doing the same begging for food in Cambodia. This appears to be a large monastery. Very interesting tour and thank you, Mel.
Feb 16, 2024 17:22:28 #
I'm frankly amazed that no one else picked up on the most salient disclosure of this whole episode: Drinking yak butter tea offers excellent immunity to the sheen from so many bald heads.
Loved it all.
Loved it all.
Feb 16, 2024 18:03:56 #
So interesting! So beautifully presented. I second all the previous UGGERs accolades!
Feb 17, 2024 17:24:10 #
Feb 17, 2024 18:44:06 #
MosheR wrote:
It will make more sense if you start at Part 1 and go through these in order. They're posted in order, but if they do not come out that way, sorry.
Welcome back, Mel! Needless to say that any your post is always a Discovery...
Feb 19, 2024 11:06:19 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
joecichjr wrote:
The color and people are magnificently impactful ❤... (show quote)
So you got to know them very well, Joe ... a lot better than I did. I always found these guys to be very interesting. Many of them lived in the "regular world" before becoming monks, so it was interesting to learn what their motivations were to go this route. Once, in a remote area of Burma I think, a monk asked me if the photo I had taken of him would be in some magazine. I replied that it was going to go into Playboy, at which he burst out into embarrassed giggles. Obviously, he knew what Playboy was.
Feb 19, 2024 11:06:46 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Bubalola wrote:
Welcome back, Mel! Needless to say that any your post is always a Discovery...
Thank you for that, Eugene. I appreciate the thought.
Feb 19, 2024 11:07:52 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Bubbee wrote:
So interesting! So beautifully presented. I second all the previous UGGERs accolades!
Thank you, Bubbee. I'm always blushingly flattered by your always generous comments.
Feb 19, 2024 11:08:28 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
srfmhg wrote:
Fantastic set Mel. I missed yesterday's digest and I'm catching up.
Glad you enjoyed it, Mark. I can honestly say that we always learn travel stuff from each other.
Feb 19, 2024 11:11:57 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
black mamba wrote:
I'm frankly amazed that no one else picked up on the most salient disclosure of this whole episode: Drinking yak butter tea offers excellent immunity to the sheen from so many bald heads.
Loved it all.
Loved it all.
Glad you enjoyed it, Tom. I tried rubbing some yak butter into my own bald head, but then nobody would go near me for three days.
Feb 19, 2024 11:14:05 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
lnl wrote:
We were fortunate to see the Buddhist monks doing the same begging for food in Cambodia. This appears to be a large monastery. Very interesting tour and thank you, Mel.
You're more than welcome, Ellen. As I've stated before, I realize that you've been around a lot yourself. I would love to see some of the photos of your travels, even if in a private message.
Feb 19, 2024 11:15:07 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
AzPicLady wrote:
I didn't know they did this. I assume they have to do it every day. Very interesting.
You're correct, Kathy. They have to do this every day. And, for that matter, so do the townspeople.
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