The teacher, Robina, has turned out to be an amazing teacher. There isn’t much she doesn’t know about the Lam Rim (the graduated path to enlightenment), which is what she is teaching. She does talk super fast, so I imagine the translators and all of the people whom English isn’t their first language, may be having a hard time keeping up. And as expected, she doesn’t cut anyone any slack. If you ask a question, it had better be a question and not a rambling sorta maybe question. Otherwise she will keep on you until you make it a simple question. And do it in front of all 250 of us!
This monastery on a hill near Kopan, was damaged during the 2015 earthquake and has been boarded up ever since. I’m not sure why, because when I visited it shortly after it was built, someone with a lot of money had sponsored it and it was almost too beautiful inside.
Small farm and valley opposite of the Kathmandu valley.
The gompa now.
That’s it for now.
Peru - The Amazon 