by Tim Girvin | Nov 2, 2007 | Diary
Blessings | His Holiness Je Khenpo On the day of our departing, there was a massive blessing ceremony by the one person whose relationship to the King of Bhutan is on an equal. This is His Holiness Je Khenpo. Arising early that morning, prepping to head out, there was...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
We’d gone to a massive ceremony celebrating the presence of His Holiness Je Khenpo, this, actually, being at the end of the trip, the end of a day so long and filled with experiences and adventure, that I’d thought really — both: “why...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
Bhutan Journal I’ve been thinking about the concept of the stair. You go up. You go down. There are the two ways; there’s not much else. One path, ascension. One path, descent. I’m finding myself being focused on that, the movements of the steps...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
Bhutan Journal The Treasure Revealer at 7 Years of Age. His Holiness | Terton Drukda Dorji Photo by Tim Girvin What length, these days. What breadth, in experience. Beginning at 4.30am, climbing to Taksang, being the first there (on the most spectacularly auspicious...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 1, 2007 | Diary
What splash, what psychedelia, that is India! Dizzy-making, whirling, whizzing, a deep folio, colorations like anything, but all mixed up. Splattering and spattering — carnival. Photos by Tim Girvin Color spinner. What inspirations, found in the sheer nerve of...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 31, 2007 | Diary
Printing prayers | 10.31 I’d written about this, earlier — https://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=346 — the power of that which is transcribed to translated prayer. That prayer is a series of sacrosanct sounds, it’s a vibration; it’s a...
