![]() ![]() This is despite Lhasa being not only far from any Tibetan boundary, but also strictly off-limits to any foreigners (known as philings). ![]() She adopts a son, Yendong she spends two years meditating in the wilderness with only a shirt to keep her warm and she spends a winter in Kumdum monastery reading and translating Buddhist documents, despite that place being off-limits to women.ĪDN decides that she would like to travel to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet and the ‘Tibetan Vatican’ (her words). I consider as the happiest of my life those days when, with a load upon my back, I wandered as one of the countless tribe of Thibetan beggar pilgrims. Such things might easily bring on heart failure or madness. ![]() People whose hearts are not strong and who cannot sufficiently master their nerves are wiser to avoid journeys of this kind. She spent fourteen years in Tibet (which she spells Thibet) because she wanted to. ADN was a traveller in a time when women flinging themselves across the world for the joy of adventure was unheard of. ![]()
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