Expression from an Idiot by birth:

Rinpochhe Consecrating the lhakhang and Sertog  His Holiness the Nyamkhai Nyngpo Rinpochhe visited Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) today (12-04-2012) upon the request offered by the management of the institute. Rinpochhe was invited to bless the Institute as well as to inaugurate the newly built small lhakhang (temple) in the courtyard of the dzong, where utse (four storied central tower) used to sit before it was brought down in 1994 or1996 due to safety issues as the timber in the building started to rot, since maintenance was out of question (the universal problem, budget issues). Brief history of the dzong:   Lamai Goempa Dzong Lamai Goempa dzong, where UWICE is housed at present used to be the summer residence of first king of Bhutan, Sir Ugyen Wangchuck, one may rightly say the name of the Institute has been honored in the name of Bhutan's first king. With time the dzong was inherited by one of the princesses. There are ...

It happened again almost at the same time it happened last year in eastern Bhutan....is it a mere coincidence or some sort of cycle has developed?, we never know.!!! After busy and tiring Sunday (September 18, 2011), I was lying by the side of Bukhari (Improved wooden stove to warm room:- Swiss Technology) reading "The Heart Of The Buddha" by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpochhe, when I heard the strange sound of rattling ceiling of the 40 years old Swiss built house in Lamai Goempa, Bumthang, Bhutan. My wife was preparing evening green tea and my daughter was watching a television program. The violent shaking of our house shook my wife and made her nervous which made her to shout our names out. I tried to control the situation and stayed calm, but the subsequent shaking which continued even after we vacated our house and the simultaneous rattling sound of the Institute's entrance gate and violent shaking of the electric pole by the side of our house plucked my calmness and threw ...