{"id":322,"date":"2012-08-03T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=322"},"modified":"2012-08-03T18:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:05:43","slug":"norbulingka-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Norbulingka Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I managed to visit Norbulingka Institute in 2011 I was unhappy that I had missed visiting this center of Tibetan culture in 1973. I found out later that Norbulingka Institute was founded in 1988. I didn’t feel so bad then. (What sort of lesson is that?)<\/p>\n

This is worth the trip from McLeod Ganj. Norbulingka Institute is a quiet refuge where Tibetan art and culture are preserved and where it is possible to see people at work producing traditional crafts.<\/p>\n

Details on Norbulingka Institute are readily available on the internet. I’ll let these pictures describe some of the highlights for me. The only anecdote I will share from my visit is the fact that this is the only place I have seen where the spinning direction of prayer wheels is noted. This way,\u00a0 those unfamiliar with the practice do not inadvertently subtract prayers with their spinning.<\/p>\n

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Tibetan colors<\/p><\/div>\n

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Traditional crafts<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thangka painting<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tibet in miniature 1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tibet in miniature 2<\/p><\/div>\n

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Water driven prayer wheel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Seat of Happiness Temple<\/p><\/div>\n

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Seat of Happiness Temple and mountains<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I managed to visit Norbulingka Institute in 2011 I was unhappy that I had missed visiting this center of Tibetan culture in 1973. I found out later that Norbulingka Institute was founded in 1988. I didn’t feel so bad … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-5c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}