Marilyn Silverstone - SIKKIM

SIKKIM - The Lingdok Gomchen, Gangtok, 1972.
The 87 year old Lingdok Gomchen is a celibate gelong and for the past 27 years has lived in a meditation cottage on a forested hilltop near Taktse where his companions are a fierecely devoted 'gelong' monk attendant, and a cat.For hours he sits in meditation, is totally deaf, and lives off donations from pilgrims. - Marilyn Silverstone

The Lingdok Gomchen, Gangtok, 1972.
The 87 year old Lingdok Gomchen is a celibate gelong and for the past 27 years has lived in a meditation cottage on a fores...

Yoksam Government primary school. Sikkimese boy learning how to write.

SIKKIM - Venerable Khenpo Thupten and his pupil,the Seventh Incarnation of the high lama Dzogchen Pema Rinzing.Gangtok.Sikkim.1972.
Since January 1970 Khempo Thupten has been the tutor to the 7th Dzogchen Pena Rinzing, a voy now 7 years old, born to Khampa parents settled in Sikkim, and recognised soon after his birth as the reincarnation of the gread Siddha especially revered in Kham.It is said at the boy's birth,the 7 cups of water on the family altar turned milky white, and he started speaking about his monastery when he was small.It was Dodrup Rimpoche who recognised the boy as the reincarnation.It had been the 5th Dzogchen Pema Rinzing who had recognised Dodrup Rimpoche and had been his tutor. - Marilyn Silverstone

Venerable Khenpo Thupten and his pupil,the Seventh Incarnation of the high lama Dzogchen Pema Rinzing.Gangtok.Sikkim.1972.
Since January 1970 Khempo Thupten ha...

WESTERN SIKKIM. Mountain peaks south of Kanchenjunga. 1972.

Sangacholing. Cutting sacred texts that will be arranged into images.

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