Happy Birthday, Dalai Lama

July 6, 2009 | Category: Arunachal Pradesh, Volunteering | by: Heather

July 6th was the Dalai Lama’s birthday, and Buddhists everywhere were celebrating….I think.  At least WE were throwing a big, festive party, with good food, new prayer flags around the community, lots of music, colorful costumes, important guests, and most of all, dancing.  The children practiced their dances for a few weeks before.  They love dancing, and would often stay up late, whirling and stomping in the meditation hall, even though they get up really early (4, 4:30…5 am at the latest) to play and do chores before school.  It was a rockin’ good time, with one of the highlights being the last act, where all the adults attempted to do the same Bollywood dance that some of the girls had just performed.  40 photos.

Check out a more complete photo gallery (than ours) of the day at www.jhamtseinternational.org/blog
The blog is one of the projects Heather’s been working on, along with teaching people to use it.
In fact, check out the main website.  It’ll tell you a bit about the place that we’re at…Spence is currently heading up a complete overhaul of the site, another one of our projects.

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