Travel Writing — Ladakh
Easter Day Snow in Ladakh
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Last week they had more heavy snow - and no electricity, the wires are down and the roads over the 5000 metre passes are blocked.
Padmasambhava & Avalokiteshvara, Sani Monastery, Zanskar
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Continuing our look around Sani monastery we find statues of Maitreya, Padmasambhava & his consorts Queen Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal.
Journeys in Zanskar - Kanika Chorten at Sani Monastery
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The name Kanika implies the chorten is from the 2nd century Kushan era and named from the emperor Kanishka.
An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh
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The old stupas and paintings were taken apart by a lama, broken up and cast into the river Indus which flows less than half a mile away.
Padmasambhava in Zanskar
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Sani houses the oldest stupa in Ladakh and Zanskar and just outside the monastery is a huge Padmasambhava statue in the middle of a lake.