Why this blog?
In the spring of 2025, in the restaurant of the HPTDC Tourist Inn in Rewalsar (Tsopema) I got landed with a job. This was quite unexpected, but I must say I am both honoured and thrilled to be in this position. The job? Leading the group was Ngagpa Karma Lhundup, who had spoken in the past of some interviews that he had facilitated and for which he had interpreted. He has for years provided significant material and other support to these nuns. The interviews were with the nuns who practice in the caves in the hills above Tsopema. In the course of this meal the idea took form that these stories about how the nuns came to be there, the sometimes heroic escape journeys they had made, and the hardships they had undergone, should see the light of day. Prepared and published in some way, perhaps as a book - who knows? And if it ever makes any profit, all of that will go to support those brave nuns and retreatants. (I know, I know - "in our dreams". But hey...) How could this be don...
