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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Ineffable Experience at Lamayuru

Raum Feur

Posted by terryl chapman at 9:56 AM

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"uncontacted" Indians in Brazil

"uncontacted"

In cotton and wool on Everest 1924

Mallory and Irvine top left

George Mallory nametags

George Mallory and wife Ruth

George Mallory 1886-1924

Andrew Irvine, Mallory's equally doomed partner on the climb

Grandma Peggy

something comfy

James Tissot: Prophet Ezekiel

My beautiful lamb cake from my 100 year old Griswold lamb cake mold

Dream come true: Best ebay purchase this year...My beautiful lamb cake from my 100 year old Griswold lamb cake mold

The Risen Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene at the Tomb

Rembrandt von Rijn 1638

The Entombment

Body of Christ being prepared for the tomb

Ode to a Moth

Lamayuru from a distance

Lamayuru Monastery celebration

This is what we experienced, unexpectedly, at Lamayuru: a celebration to welcome a very high-ranking monk visiting the monastery. I was so dumbstruck I couldn't even take photos, but I found these online taken by someone who was also there, Raum Feur

Lamayuru

Lamayuru man

- Feur

Lamayuru woman

- Feur. I remember seeing this woman but wasn't brave enough to photograph

Lamayuru woman

- Feur

The coolness factor: people say that Barack could pass as one of his own Secret Service men

Good luck with Georgie Porgie today!

young monks

"Fresh from their morning puja, or prayer session, these novice monks are captivated by a scene during the annual festival at the remote Lamayuru monastery, the oldest Tibetan Buddhist institution in Ladakh in northern India"

Lamayuru Monastery: postcard from the fridge

My lifelong dream, to go to a place like this- and then I did go, to this exact place, as if by magic!

Kimberly McDonald earrings

Honna's tools of trade

Velveteen Rabbits for Obama!

Palm Sunday, Jesus Enters Jerusalem in Triumph

The crowds joyfully wave palms and lovingly welcome Jesus to Jerusalem in triumph. In the days to come the tide will turn and these same crowds will want Him dead.

gumdrop tree

Christopher Columbus bumps into the already inhabited Americas,

totally by accident, on his way to India, after other explorers had already discovered America, let's say Leif Erikson or Henry Sinclair and The Westford Knight, (remember the mid-1400's corn carvings in Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland) yet we still celebrate Bumbling Columbus 500+ years later?

My three-year old grand-daughter Maya

surfing with her grandfather in Santa Cruz

Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

Decorus and sedate in comparison to the way people are feeling these days

From the book "Family of Man"- Depression Photo of Woman Migrant Worker: by D. Lange

Here we go again

St. Peter's Church Cape May Point

California Academy of Sciences - 2012-ish quality in this room

California Academy of Sciences - a 2001-ish quality in this room

tree as monolith

California Academy of Sciences roof

Bruni-Sarkozy

Palin's tete-a-tete with Kissinger

Take note that Kissinger is averting his eyes to Ms. Palin's attempt at a Sharon Stone fatal attraction

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1900 Galveston Hurricane

Why Not a Ground Zero Apple Orchard

Cern component - 50 feet across

Hadron Particle Collider: lovely!

Tina Fey (Sarah Palin) John McCain

How strange is this 2004 cover?!

Have a Hot Dog, at least, on Labor Day

Greg Mortenson: Wondrous Being!

I cannot believe I never read Three Cups of Tea before this week! It takes place about 100 miles from where we were a few weeks ago, I could have learned so much by reading it beforehand. But better late than never!

I snapped this photo on the Leh-Kargil road, just in time to capture his fading face forever

Om Tattoo from Ladakh

Leh Palace, prototype for Potala

still pure

Onward!

Along the Ancient Silk Road: Summertime in Leh

Leh 1909

View of Leh from "Potala" side

Prototype for the Potala Palace

Leh is a little Lhasa

Leh environs

The road into Leh

Can you imagine?

Leh is up there by that "line of actual control"

George Mallory, Alabaster on Everest at 27,000 feet

Mallory as he was found, resting in peace 1999

Salila

Beautiful setting for ten days of silence and no eye contact, in the Himalayan foothills

Salila Vipassana Center Dehradun India

Honna begins Vipassana here today, July 5th

Brad Pitt as Jesse James

No you don't, you just think you do

Happy Fourth of July!

Congress Hall

I Ching Hexaram 56: The Wanderer

Ladahk woman and babe

@ Brad Carlile

Ladakh monk

@ Brad Carlile

view from Leh

@ Brad Carlile

Leh

The Good Old Days

Monet's lilies, rarely seen

considered to be the first large scale modern art, painted 1919

eighty million spent today for Monet

Vetruvian Man on the Euro

Leonardo da Vinci and the Euro, and a slight hint of Pranic Healing?

Jaw Pain!

Yellow scarf passing by

from Honna in India- one of many

Honest Abe Lincoln

Abe, our tallest president, 6'4"

Fort at Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer

Imagine! So Why Do You Think Obama's Nomination is Reminding People of John Lennon Lyrics Tonight?

India map

Mother's Day

Descent of the Holy Spirit

WIllie later on

Willie Nelson early on

Serene Dogwood

Dogwood and Lilac

Van Now

Van Then

Wu Zhengdan on pointe on the head of her husband, Wei Baohua

Roy Rogers and Trigger

Handmaiden by Lamplight

Sir Mick at Buckingham Palace with dad and two daughters

Mick 2008

Mick Jagger 1973

Voyager Golden Record

My little Hillary collage

My Leopard

Hard to believe I took this myself, in the wilds of Africa, with my pocket Panasonic, from the safety of a Jeep.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

David Brooks

Op Ed Columnist New York Times, wrote the very funny piece about how "memory is the new sex" and how Boomer environmentalists will soon start saying hopefully that we are "reducing our mental footprint"

Carrying on into another generation

my kids, their mates, my granddaughter, and me

My kids all grown up

Good old dad, still going strong at seventy-one in Istanbul, 1993

My parents, nearing seventy

They were such youthful, fun and generous grandparents for my kids and my sister's kids!

My Mom, Ruth Ellen Thomas Chapman

born August 8 1922

My Dad, Dr. William Leroy Chapman

born April 10, 1922 Happy Birthday!

mandala

Ava's India

The Doctor

by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes

The Eldest Doctor Chapman

editorial upon my grandfather's passing

My grandfather, The Honorable Dr. L. E. Chapman, as a young man

around 1910

Grandfather's notes from 1900, in Greek

Caduceus

My dear dad, young and hot at 21

Grandma Peggy at age 17, 1914

my mom's mom

My grandfather's notes from Medical School @1900

Pediatrics

Wash your hands before lunching with the elephants! Botswanan wash basin

Our hosts provide gently and well- notice the little yellow soap on top of the round "soapdish" on the far right

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My up-close and personal time with a kind, thoughtful wounded elephant at a refuge camp

elephant ear

Me being ravished by elephants in Botswana

Better than nothing!

Friedrich Nietzsche 1882

McCain Nautical Pin

Young John McCain

Barack back a ways

Bill and Hillary 1970

Hillary back in the day

Fresh in from hunting and swilling whiskey with the guys? Bet those hard working fellows loved having HER along!

Rosslyn ceiling

fanciful!

Astonishing Rosslyn Chapel

Apprentice Pillar

The Green Man

mysterious carvings at Rosslyn Chapel

Rosslyn Chapel carvings of corn

15th century carvings predate knowledge of corn in Europe

Rosslyn

Rosslyn South Entrance

Springtime At Giverny

Claude Monet 1886

Westminster

Bertrand Russell

Bob Dylan 2006

Bob Dylan 1966

Last Supper by Salvador Dali

This painting fascinated me for years after I first saw it in the National Gallery in Washington. It made me think that maybe Dali was sane after all. You have to see it for yourself to appreciate the beauty of it, and especially the beauty of the lustrous satin robes.

Mary Queen of Scots

something rotten at the State Department?

Some of Our Leaders

my little collage

One Leader

May be Different from the Others

Those wonderful old Sunday School pictures

Jesus Blessing the Children

Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

When I was in third grade my grandmother gave me this as an oil paint-by-numbers kit and I was so proud when it was done! (Whatever happened to those really good paint-by-number kits?)

Judas betrays Jesus, with a kiss

Giotto's "The Kiss of Judas" from the Scrovegni Chapel

Peter's betrayal foreseen

Jesus to Peter: "Before the cock crows you will deny me three times"

Grandma's Jesus

Werner Sallman's famous old portrait comforted many

Remember What People Can Do

Palm Sunday Cross

Beware the Ides of March

Et tu Brute? Assassination of Caesar on the Roman senate floor by senators including his once dear friend Brutus, March 15, 44BC.(painting by Vincenzo Camuccini)

Pray for Tibet and the Tibetan people

This weekend Chinese authorities are using tanks, tear gas and guns to maim and kill Tibetan monks and citizens who are protesting the Chinese occupation and desecration of their homeland

Scrovegni

.....Memento

taken from the back of a sweet man at the Polka Dot Ball

Lady of Guadalupe

once while living in Mexico in the sixties I nearly got The Virgin of Guadalupe tattooed on my hip but chickened out after the first poke of the pen, wondering "What would my mother think?"