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Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds Over Mountains, McLeodganj

Posted on March 28, 2022 by B Gourley

Taken in June of 2015 above McLeodganj in Himachal Pradesh

DAILY PHOTO: Monument to Self-Immolators at the Dalai Lama’s Temple

Posted on July 24, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken at the Dalai Lama's Temple in McLeodganj on June 22, 2015

Taken at the Dalai Lama’s Temple (Tsug la Khang) in McLeodganj on June 22, 2015

In the Dalai Lama Temple complex, Tsug la Khang, there’s a monument to Tibetan self-immolators that is located right across from The Tibet Museum (which, incidentally, has its own memorial wall inside.)

DAILY PHOTO: St. John in the Wilderness

Posted on July 19, 2015 by B Gourley

Taken June 23, 2015 in McLeodganj

This Anglican church dates to 1852 and was built for British troops stationed here back when Dharamsala was a British garrison town. (FYI: Dharamsala retains a large military base to this day and thus is still a military town in a sense, though I doubt there is a significant number of Anglicans among the officers or enlisted troops these days.)

This hand-cut granite structure was said to be one of the few that survived a major earthquake in 1905. It features a bell that has survived damage and attempted thievery.