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sea 14 2011 Gyantse: the strength of the brave with no luck

For: Ricardo Coarasa

Gyantse: la fortaleza de los valientes sin suerte

From the valley of Nyang-chu, the once mighty fortress of Gyantse seems a maiden defiled, a half-finished decoration. Once up, with the plateau at our feet as far as the eye can see, one fully understands the strategic value of this crossroads between China and India where the Tibetans fought in 1904 the last battle before limping before the British invasion.

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sea 07 2011 The most impressive stupa of Tibet

For: Ricardo Coarasa

On the Tibetan city of Gyantse some capricious god one day due to launch a curse. His two great treasures, a monastery and a fortress, were destroyed without mercy. But as the gods crowded but not drown, at least it is one of the most impressive stupas (funerary monuments) Tibet.

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feb 14 2011 In the bowels of the Potala

For: Ricardo Coarasa

Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit the holy madness of Don Quixote our universal.

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feb 07 2011 Norbulingka: the “driving school” The Dalai Lama

For: Ricardo Coarasa

Norbulingka: la “autoescuela” del Dalai Lama

The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.

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Jan 31 2011 Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond
For: Ricardo Coarasa

Al Himalaya en bicicleta o cómo diluir la autoestima en un nanosegundo

We met him by chance on the streets of Lhasa hours before heading to Everest Base Camp. There Richard, Vitoria firefighter traveling alone. Going to make our own path, the 1.100 kilometers from the capital of Tibet in Kathmandu, but cycling. Way, be diverted to greet some friends to Sishapagma. Today I go to sleep feeling very small. Some people have a cataplines as eight thousand.

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Jan 24 2011 Will: Burials “heavenly” and child-lama Spanish
For: Ricardo Coarasa

Sera: entierros “celestiales” y el niño-lama español

The monk said a cliff above 4.000 meters, east of Sera monastery, where there is evident a rustic stone house. Tibetans, account, carry their dead at dawn to solitary cliffs like this to butcher them with an ax. The vultures and crows do the rest. In the land of no snow cemeteries.

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April 22 2010 Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

Lago Yamdrok: el monasterio budista que salvó la mujer-cerdo

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago the famous female reincarnation of Tibet in a corner of the Himalayas, where the silence.

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