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wat Muang: The most surreal temple in Thailand

A giant Buddha barged between rice paddies. Nothing seemed to explain why precisely there emerged, a golden figure 92 meters high. In the shadow of the Buddha work daily farmers in the province of Ang Thong, overwhelmed by the dimensions of one of the 10 largest statues in the world.

byDaniel Landa

14 December, 2015

Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago, by the highest mountain range on earth, the most famous female reincarnation of Tibet. It is a landscape that is impregnated overwhelming mysticism that surrounds the corners that the mountains have taken to silence.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 February, 2013

Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats

Tashilunpo monastery was home to the second authority in Tibet, The Panchen Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled the Chinese invasion, Beijing sought and found their support. But the idyll did not last long and ended up imprisoned Panchen Lama. I'm in Shigatse, at the foot of the largest Buddha statue in the world. A monk asked me 30 photograph yuan. Is it true that some of them are Chinese agents?

byRicardo Coarasa

7 April, 2011

Gyantse: the strength of the brave with no luck

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 March, 2011

The most impressive stupa of Tibet

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 March, 2011

Tibet: in the bowels of the Potala

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 February, 2011

Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 February, 2011

Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 January, 2011

Will: «celestial» burials and the Spanish child-lama

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 January, 2011