Lord Buddha

I don't know how I spent last 3 months without a single post, though if I say I literally had nothing to post I won't b wrong.
:P
2010 however had a finest beginning for me that it could have. Got a chance to go to Dharamshala and surrounding places on a totally messed up trip where we travel each place almost more than twice for one reason or the other.
It was fun.

This is a photograph of the idol of Gautam Buddha at the Tibetan institute of Norbulinka, near Dharamshala. One of the finest places to visit in Dharamshala, but the least travelled though probably because of it's off the track location. The institute has been preserving the Tibetan culture in every aspect.
Doll museum provides a great insight to their life. The following are the pictures from the doll museum.






Other beautiful places inside include a library and the beautiful gardens and appealing restaurants.









For more on Norbulinka, visit www.norbulingka.org.

Life...its colors!

Life has many colours, a few I am depicting here.

Maroon. Most radical thing one could do to his life is become a monk, and being a monk means self-abnegation for a cause, a tradition that extants. Marooned at a very young age, monks they say, leave the world for the sake of the world, in search of spirituality, revelation and peace. Here the cheerfullness of the monk completely overshadows his obligations.

Another is the colour of youth, full of nascent callow ambitions many of which will be sustained in the walk of life, bating myriads, insatiable. Oblivious with the mettle it takes to sacrifice one's self, she is cheerfully enjoying the company.

Grey. Too blased to be fascinated by any of the brighter colors, the old man shows absolute disinclination towards the worldly desires.

Shot in Dharamshala, home to thousands of Tibetan monks, I feel lucky to have captured these mild moments, showing light exchange of thoughts, spoken and unspoken.