Buddhism on The Singemonkey

October 02, 2021

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:31:04 +0000

I don’t know why I started thinking about this picture. Tibetan monks in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, reading from old books in the Tibetan script. Maybe books that they smuggled out of Tibet after the Chinese takeover.

One of the things that always put me off was a very unfortunate tendency by my Nikon F100 to leave a scratch across the film - a slender straight black line caused by the film being pulled across some piece of grit on the pressure plate. I can get rid of it with a bit of work, but I’d always just move on. Now it maybe seems like part of the nostalgia for these pictures.

August 16, 2018

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:27:01 +0000

Ok. It’s actually Thursday for the official #tbt. I don’t think I’ve ever shown anyone this version of this pic at Boudhanath in Nepal. Pretty sure this was on Velvia 50. This was back in 2005.

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July 05, 2018

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:54:31 +0000

Beautiful sunny winter’s day chez moi.

December 28, 2017

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:52:00 +0000

Narcissus. Herons sometimes feature in Buddhist iconography representing the Buddha mind of stillness with great alertness. This Little Egret knows it’s a great way to fill the belly.

June 22, 2017

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:29:53 +0000