The Windhorse"Two friends, one blind, the other an experienced mountaineer, tell of their great adventure in Nepal"--Jacket. |
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... mantras , and built them into ' mani ' walls at intervals along the trail . These marked good places for rest - stops , where Julie could get her fingers to work on the script . The most popular mantra , ' OM MANI PADME HUM ' , was that ...
... mantras , and built them into ' mani ' walls at intervals along the trail . These marked good places for rest - stops , where Julie could get her fingers to work on the script . The most popular mantra , ' OM MANI PADME HUM ' , was that ...
Page 133
... mantras embossed in gold on the wheels , the same mantra as we had found on the rocks on the hillside , but in an older script which I could not read . I smiled as I remembered Tapkhay saying even he found the old script difficult . The ...
... mantras embossed in gold on the wheels , the same mantra as we had found on the rocks on the hillside , but in an older script which I could not read . I smiled as I remembered Tapkhay saying even he found the old script difficult . The ...
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... mantra of Tongden Gelug . Namka was right ; it was everywhere around here . Now that my eyes had been opened to it , I could see it on many of the carved boulders around Thangboche , where before it had just been carving that I had been ...
... mantra of Tongden Gelug . Namka was right ; it was everywhere around here . Now that my eyes had been opened to it , I could see it on many of the carved boulders around Thangboche , where before it had just been carving that I had been ...
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altitude Ama Dablam Base Camp blind boulders Bruno carved chörten climbing cold cook Dablam doko Dorjee drink Dudh Kosi Elaine Everest everything expedition eyes feel felt fingers flight glacier going gompa guide dogs hand hard hill Jangbu Jangbu and Dawa Julie Julie's Junbesi Kaji Kala Patthar Kathmandu keep Khumbu Khumbu glacier Khumjung kitchen knew Lama laughed Lhakpa Lhotse Lobuche looking Lukla mind Mingmar monastery moraine morning mountains Namche Nepali never night okay Ongdi Paphlu Pheriche Phurba porters prayer flags Pumori realised rest ridge river rock round rucksack scrambled seemed Sherpa Sherpinis Sirdar snow sound Stefan stone sure talking Tapkhay Tapkhay's Tawa tea-shop tell tent Thangboche there's things thought thousand feet Thumbuk Tibetan Tibetan script tomorrow trail trek trekkers trekking trying valley village waiting walked warm watch wind wondered zopkios