Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Contemporary Tibetan art in Emmen
A surprising and unique museum with a mixture of traditional and contemporary Tibetan art. The contemporary works are by Tibetan monk Tashi Norbu, who creates them on site.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Karma Deleg Chö Phel Ling temple
21-22 May: piece of Tibet in Friesland Introduction to the Karma Deleg Chö Phel Ling Buddhist Study and Meditation Centre An authentic Tibetan temple in the middle of the rural Frisian landscape. How did it end up there! Shortly after the death of her husband in 1977, Ageeth Franssen donated her land with farmstead to the 16th Karmapa, the then head of the Karma Kagyü school, one of [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022 - Around the Netherlands: Harlingen - Nijmegen
A visit to a Tibetan temple and a museum of contemporary Tibetan art, in on the bike quite a lot of rain.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022 - Around the Netherlands: Texel - Vlieland - Terschelling
The Wadden Islands: endless beaches and dunes, seals and lots of wind.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Amsterdam and on to Den Helder/Texel
Busy Tibet agenda in Amsterdam and then through polders and dunes to Den Helder.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Bike ride with Tibetan community through Amsterdam
10 May: cycling for solidarity with Tibet ICT Europe Director Wangpo Thetong and DawaTsering, the president of the Tibetan community Netherlands, had called on their supporters to come to Dam Square by bike by 11am today to join me on a bike ride through the city centre.I was curious to see how many Tibetans would turn up. That [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Tibetan Sunday school Amsterdam
8 May: Visit Tibetan School Amsterdam Sunday I visited the Tibetan Gangjong Rigzod School in Osdorp, Amsterdam Nieuw West, together with ICT director Wangpo Tethong and volunteer Yeshe Gelek. Dawa Tsering and Karma Ngawang, president and vice-president respectively of the Tibetan community in the Netherlands, welcomed us warmly with a cup of steaming Tibetan butter tea. After getting acquainted, we visited the six classes of [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Tibet at Volkskundemuseum Leiden
7 May: Visit to Ethnological Museum Leiden Today, ICT director Wangpo Tethong invited Tibetan Tibetologist Yangdon Dhondup, resident in Leiden, and myself to visit the Ethnological Museum. The museum houses a small collection of Tibetan religious artefacts. Wangpo told us that His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the museum in 1985 and opened the exhibition. He noted that [...]
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: 'Cycling for Tibet' kick-off day in Utrecht
The Tibetan community in Utrecht welcomed me warmly and the #cyclingforTibet tour of the Netherlands got off to a traditional start.
Cycling for Manjushri 2022: Baarle-Hertog/Nassau: 'World capital of enclaves'
How many times did I cross a national border today?
