Donations
Richard Gir was first attracted greater public attention in 2003 when he and Golda Hon offered a million dollars a valuable donation for the education of Tibetan refugees. He also started the foundation, "Green Mekleod ganjo."
While Daramšala located in the lowlands, at an altitude of 1,300 meters, Mekleod ganjo is perched on the average height of 2,100 meters on the mountain Venac Dauladar, whose highest peak Haniman Ka Tiba high 5,639 yards. Another name for this place, Little Lhasa, comes from a broad population of Tibetans who resides there. It is the Tibetan government in exile.
This settlement was named after shitting Donald Mekleodu, Governor Punjab, and the suffix "ganjo" is a common Hindi word for "neighborhoods". During the British rule in India here are in the pleasant climate of the British spent hot Indian summer. British Regent Lord Eldžin (1862-63), was so fascinated by these places that it was proposed to the summer capital of India. The whole area suffered major damage in an earthquake in 1904, when the lives of nearly 20,000 people from the area of Kangra.
After the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 Tenzin Gjatso - the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India. Indian Government offered him refuge in Daramšali, where in 1960 established the Tibetan government in exile and the Dalai Lama settled in Mekleod ganjo. At the same time, there are established Buddhist monasteries, and the place was inhabited by Tibetan refugees.
Over the years, this famous village has become an important tourist and pilgrim destination, the significance of which is continuously growing. Besides Tibetans today live in it different peoples: Kashmiris (avoid the turmoil taking place in Kashmir), Europeans and Americans who volunteer here, and especially Buddhist monks, who come from all over the world. Snežnobeli peaks of the Himalayas remind residents to distant Tibet.
On this land, remind and smiling faces of Tibetans, Buddhist monasteries, shrines, prayer flags and rollers, mantras carved in stone, Buddhist monks in maroon garment, Tibetan music, "singing bowls" and other attributes of Tibetan Buddhism. Above, there are residence of the Dalai Lama and the Kalachakra Temple.
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swifant / Flickr.com
inspiration poets
This village in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas for several years now carries the title of world spiritual center. Represents a soft which come clerics are looking for inner purification. The inspiration poets, writers, actors and all those who seek answers to the eternal questions of life and death, good, love and peace.
Place has a special atmosphere and the outstanding natural beauty: the crystal clear sky by which a multitude of golden eagles in flight reaches the heights of the surrounding peaks, beautiful forests of pine and rhododendron flowering in March that transforming the mountain slopes to the magic red tones, the silence and the sound of distant bells.
All this can not be easy to describe, but it is necessary simply will go through. Because it is not unusual imaginary paradise legendary valley of Shangri La, about which he wrote James Hilton, but part of the reality of stunning India.
Increasingly, Mekleod ganjo destination into which the famous. In order to feel the atmosphere of peace, Buddhist tradition and old way of life in Tibet, which is in this region remained unchanged, many world famous personalities have found a place here his spiritual fulfillment, Duke of GLOCESTER, Duchess of York, Mrs. Mitterrand, actors Richard Gir Uma Turman, Golda Hon, Pierce Brosnan, Demi Moore, Steven Sigal, Harrison Ford, as well as model Cindy Crawford and Christie Tarlington. Among the famous visitors of the mathematician and psychologist David Meyer, Volf Zinger, director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, and Robert Turman, father of actress Uma Turman and professor of Buddhism in the United States.
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TenSafeFrogs / Flickr.com
perilous journey
Every year, hundreds of Tibetans risk of being killed or closed, it freezes and dies on the way when escaping from Tibet through Nepal Dalai Lama to the home in exile. One recent refugee monk from Tibet said he embarked on a perilous journey because he wanted to "see God before he leaves the country."
The most famous resident of the village is the Dalai Lama. Born Tenzin Gjatso (1935), the fourteenth consecutive Tibetan spiritual and secular leader represents embodies (incarnation) of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara mercy. Represents a superior chief of Tibetan Buddhism. From Mekleod ganjo trying to establish a central Tibetan administration, at the same time seeking a way to preserve Tibetan culture and education is set. Thousands of refugees from Tibet was followed their leader and moved to India.
The chaplain, who says that the only monk, today is a symbol of world peace and beacon to which is facing one of humanity who believes in human goodness, tolerance and peace. He is the first Dalai Lama who traveled to the West where he sought to introduce the world to Buddhism and promote the concept of universal responsibility, ethics and interfaith communication. In 1989, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to Chinese occupation.
Although Chinese officials have a different view on the personality of the Dalai Lama, his influence has spread from a small Indian village at the foot of the Himalayas is as powerful as that which would have His Holiness to the previous home, the Potala palace in Tibet Lasi, with 13 floors and over 1,000 rooms.
While the world has become known primarily by the supreme head of Tibetan, this village beneath the Himalayas to date has preserved its natural glow and inner spiritual peace. Like the Dalai Lama, who lives the life of an ordinary Buddhist priest, although possesses awareness of their own size and extreme importance, and takes this village. Regardless of the temptations that carry the modern world development, money and rapid way of life, it is still left a place where anyone who is not fascinated chase led by modern civilization can to get a breath and to relax. Mekleod ganjo is an ideal place to stay for anyone who wants to do nothing, does not mean anything and does not say anything.
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