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GESHE JAMPA: A Warior of Tibet

Author: Neerja Madhav

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Truth Behind Writing I found opportunity to see and listen to the Tibetan community around me living in Sarnath. In monk’s clothes, in modern clothes, in traditional clothes too, roaming on the roads of Sarnath, moving in groups towards the Tibetan Bauddh Temple to participate in Kalchakra Pooja, involved in preserving their language and culture in monasteries and institutions or selling shawls and sweaters on the footpath in the winter season, these Tibetans are seen, associating themselves with Indian culture so firmly as river Yamuna meets with river Ganga but their separate identity has never disappeared. Having an almost similar look in face-cutting and personality with our Laddakhi or Manipuri brothers and sisters of India, these Tibetans made me curious to know or write something about them once when I found a Tibetan lady as school teacher wearing a redbordered white Saree¹ in the annual function of a children’s school in Sarnath. She was singing the national-anthem of India. I was astonished and on that very day I felt once again the pleasure of Independence and grief of bondage and dependence…..

Category: Novel