Good thoughts – read on!
Okay, I can already feel the distaste from readers reading just the title; but give me a minute to convince you otherwise with a simple anecdote from three days ago, which was also Bhutan’s 113th National Day. “If you carry this pothi (a set of Tibetan buddhist scriptures) and circumambulate three times around the center altar, you will erase your negative karma” my aunt, who had taken me to the monastery told me. Under the tri-divine gaze of Sangay Methrub, Chenrigzig and Buddha; the multi-mundane gaze of my extended family members and the singularly-internalized gaze of my masculinity, I lifted the pothi, put it straight on my shoulder and began the easy work of erasing my sins in three easy rounds. However, as I was walking … ahem! … walk-sprinting to make the rounds, I couldn’t help but wonder if the fact that we had driven all the…
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