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THE SNOWDANCERA Modern Tibetan Love StoryinThree Tantric ParablesRolf GrossPacific Palisades20112
Table of ContentsRichard – Active Compassion1. Richard meets Asya in Lhasa. Ganden Ling. He persuades her to a hike to the Rongshar Valley2. They hire a yak and cross the mountains to the Tsangpo River3. A day of rest at Chung Riwoche Gompa. Asya's dreams, New yaks, The old abbot4. Tsyögyel and the abbot's tulku. Fording a river.5. Dingri and the Himalayas. Ali the photographer. The sheep must die.6. Tsultim Lama takes them into Milarepa's Rongshar Beyul.7. Drintang. Phurbu Lama from Ojai, CA. Guru Setchu Mystery Play.8. The Snowdancer. Phurbu holds forth on Dzogchen. Lapchi Gompa. Phurbu disappears9. They survive a disasterous snowstorm in a cave. Asya's dance. Rescued they reach Kathmandu.Asya – The Unification of Opposites1. Asya returns to Kathmandu. A house for Asya. The Dharma Bums and an moon ecclipse2. Christian and his airplane. Dakini Airlines. Asya flies to Pokhara.3. Flying to Mustang. Making the blind of Lo Mantang see. Drölma.4. Asya and Drölma in Lo. Lhosar Cham dances. The Dalai Lama disappears5. Drölma teaches Vajra dances at Nagi Gompa. Richard appears6. Wangchuk. Planning to go to Pemakö. Drölma and Asya explore Vajrayogini shrines7. The Pemakö. A mysterious njalorpa. Lake Gondu Dorsem Podrang. Asya gives birth to Leah.Leah - All Perceptions are but Delusions of your Mind1. At a Fasshingball in Munich Leah meets Fritz Lama. Blind Morby in the fog.2. Dittramszell with Fritz. The frozen oracle lake. Fritz guesses Leah's potential tulkana status.3. Kathmandu. Asya confesses Fritz's identity and Leah's conception. Fritz's grand scheme.4. Leah researches for her doctorate in China. Her female sanity prevails.5. Fritz and Leah get married in Dietramszell. Leah pregnant6. Dharamsala. Frank Gehry's last building. Leah faces the effigy of H.H. the 14 th Dalai Lama.7. Lhasa in turmoil. Leah's inauguration as reincarnation of the 14 th Dalay Lama. Leah's entry in Lhasa.GlossaryThe book cover shows a thangka of a benevolent two-armed Heruka with his consort, Vajrayogini, in yabyum,aquired in Kathmandu in 1999. This thangka (Nyingma tradition) is an exceptional depiction of the anuyogameditational yidam, who normally has four faces and twelve arms and appears as a wrathful protector. Here herepresents the Highest Bliss obtainable in anuyoga ---Heruka and his consort are perceived by the practitioner asone person.The pair is surrounded by four dancing dakinis – notice their leg wrappings – and four wrathful Herukas in thecolors of the Tantric mandala. Above them floats the highest Adhibuddha, blue with a naked, white consort, thesupreme Buddha of the Tantra.This personal meditational deity (yidam) is part of the Chakrasamvara common to all the New Schools (Sarma) ofHimalayan and Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu ,and Gelug). The form with one face and two handsentered Tibet with the great translator Rinchen Zangpo in the 11th century.3
Page 4 and 5: RichardActive Compassion1Exhausted
Page 6 and 7: interested in male company. He igno
Page 8 and 9: iggest monasteries in Tibet, high u
Page 10 and 11: straightened her back, relaxed, and
Page 12 and 13: "Listen," he said, "I don't like it
Page 15 and 16: He sighed deeply, "My God, what hav
Page 17 and 18: the 1860s. Disconnected bits of Suf
Page 19 and 20: screaming." She smiled uncertainly
Page 21 and 22: "I am not a professional, I have ne
Page 23 and 24: exit sat a dzong, a ruined castle w
Page 25 and 26: And then, in the afternoon a miracl
Page 27 and 28: Straight ahead, between Cho Oyu and
Page 29 and 30: the group photos."Mr. Sayed," he st
Page 31 and 32: appropriate Tibetan name for him.Wh
Page 33 and 34: Tsultim Lama with the horse and the
Page 35 and 36: Pray, lead Red Lightening Lady on t
Page 37 and 38: insight and new awareness from walk
Page 39 and 40: lives miserable. If we fail and the
Page 41 and 42: spoiled by tourists yet. I also kno
Page 43 and 44: Now that the ice was broken, Richar
Page 45 and 46: "This is Dragpo," said Phurbu. "A f
Page 47 and 48: "You hear Asya, you decide!" teased
Page 49 and 50: should have taught you that."They w
Page 51 and 52: The vegetation became denser. They
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their faces. She had not seen herse
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"You know, who that is?" cried Asya
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Her flight swept low over Kathmandu
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half-dreams, memories of her life w
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dances. You will be enchanted." Asy
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foggy mountain passes into a land o
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down, an hour detour."Asya turned a
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you."He took her into his arms, and
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As they flew north the scenery chan
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They did not talk to each other aga
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easy to achieve. That is why a daki
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Asya was sure she saw nobody and le
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Maybe I have even tamed him too muc
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the Kundun suddenly reappears in Dh
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with Caroline, I have to give John
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John shook his head. “What is wro
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"The goal of Tibetan-Buddhist exerc
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took over. Moving very gently he ra
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Nepali god of death who is represen
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the steep northwestern approaches t
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ainbow always formed a semicircle w
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had hoped to be, but I am not. I wa
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LeahAll Perceptions are but Delusio
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Religion.”Morby mimed contrition.
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close to the houses as he could. Wh
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attention on him. Our relationship
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Spell-bound Fritz looked at this wo
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In March Drölma and Wangchuk arriv
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and Tsögyel made love in the tent?
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the naljorpa’s reincarnation. And
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Asya, foreseeing a passionate debat
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Leah was flying high. She was glued
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growing interest in speaking Englis
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parents in California. He graduated
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when he repeated the order for the
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to the Lamas, but she would deny an
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Tenzin called Lhamo, who told him t
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at Fritz who was neither enthusiast
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searched for Fritz's tall figure, a
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anuyoga, atiyoga, of which the last
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Shivaite yogi trident, emblem of th
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