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Dakini Dancing at Druk Amitabha in NepalWe five nuns went to Druk Amitabha Mountain tolearn Dakini dances on 19th December. We were there for20 days. They taught usvery happily and nicely.All the nuns werevery welcoming. Ourteachers, Gen-la Tenzinand Gen-la Yeshe didnot behave like teachers,more like friends.Because it is our firsttime dancing ever Idid not know how todo the hands, legs andbody. They were verypatient. Gen-la Tenzinis studying English inDelhi but she made timeto come to Nepal so shecould teach us. For the first day it looked very difficult and Ithought how am I going to learn it. So I practiced again andagain and became even more interested to learn properly.On New Year’s Eve from 10.pm we did a big Puja withH.H. the Gyalwang Drukpa, Rinpoches, Tulkus and all thenuns. There were manybutter lamps and eachnun took a lamp andcircumambulated theStupa while chanting.After we learned thedance the GyalwangDrukpa called us withthe Gen-las to showhim what we hadlearned. (see photo) Wewere scared and happybecause it is lucky tohave the chance todance in front of him.He asked us not toforget the steps and topractice the dances in our nunnery. He offered ten brocadeDakini costumes clothes to our nunnery. That was verykind and so nice.When they returned to DGL the nunstrained other DGL nuns in dancing skills.Within a short time they practice hard andwere able to do it nicely. We were asked togive a performance at the Consecrationceremony. Though we had less time yetwe practiced really very hard to put up agood show. At first as I was dancing I onlyconcentrated on my steps, however after aminute or two I was hardly aware of others. Irealized I had regained my confidence. I feltas if the Dakinis themselves were helping mein my various dance movements. I started toenjoy every moment of it. I was overjoyedlater to learn that everyone present weredelighted to see our performance evenKhamtrul Rinpoche and H.E. DorzongRinpoche and H.E. Choegyal Rinpochewere very happy to see us dancing so welldespite our little practice. I am sure if we getanother chance to present the dance againwe will do much better.Kelsang Tsomo8 GATSAL www.tenzinpalmo.comISSUE 29
PADYATRAIN SRILANKAIt is a tradition of DGL Nunnery to send thegraduating senior nuns once on a Pilgrimage tovarious religious sites within India. This year it wasour turn. We were very lucky as we were chosen to goto Sri Lanka to join a Peace Pad Yatra which is leadingby His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa.His Holiness was invited by His Excellency MahindPaypaksa, President of Sri Lanka, to undertake thissixth Pad Yatra, which was also the first to be heldoutside of India. From the beginning we were veryhappy and excited about this Pilgrimage. None of ushad been outside the country and had not seen theocean ever once.From here at DGL we went to Delhi by bus, fromDelhi we took the train to Chennai, from Chennai wewent to Colombo by air. In Sri Lanka we were all givena very fine Reception Party. The Pad Yatra started onMarch 6th. We walked 15 kilometres every day. Wewent to many holy places there including Sri Pada,Kandy, Matale, Dambulla, Sigiriya , Polonnawuwaand Auradhapura. We went to Jaffna also.We cooked our food ourselves. We were put ingroups of ten nuns each. Each of us carried our ownbedding material. When we reached some goodplace we slept there by spreading our beddings onthe floor. We would always get up four o clock, didour Puja, then we would have our breakfast. Afterthis we resumed our march. At 12 noon we cookedour lunch, listened to a Dharma teaching from H.H.Gyalwang Drukpa and after listening we were againon the road. Then we would stop for cooking our foodfor the night. Again we did our puja. We were hardlyconscious of our passing time. The most amazing partof our Pad Yatra was ascending 12,000 steps to reachthe top of a holy place called Adam’s Peak. We alsowent in a boat to see Nagarjuna’s place. It was verynice and well maintained.H.H. the Gyalwang Drukpa presented a relic of theBuddha to the Sri Lankan Government on the last dayof our stay.It was first trip of going on a Pilgrimage with sucha High Lama and big group of nuns, monks and otherlay people. We were all together about four hundredfrom around the world. I enjoyed the whole Yatra. SriLankan people are very nice. They all are maximumBuddhists. They offered us water and biscuits, sweetsand flowers on the way. They were very devoted to us.It was very kind of Jetsunma to us. If she is nothere we never get a chance like that in our life. We arevery thankful for all the people who helped to us forthat Pilgrimage.MAY 2013 www.tenzinpalmo.comGATSAL 9
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