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 What length, these days. What breadth, in experience. Beginning at 4.30am, climbing to Taksang, being the first there (on the most spectacularly auspicious day), summiting above...
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. Color spinner. What inspirations, found in the sheer nerve of these combinations....
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...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 31, 2007 | Diary
Bhutan Journal Taksang Monastery | The Tiger’s Nest For a decades, coming to this remote outpost, was a dream. You could call the entire trip to Bhutan as the exemplar for this sense of remote connection — something powerful and distant; something...
