Who Edits the Editor?
By Jenny James / April 2, 2015
Editing Contact magazine has brought enormous riches to my life. Nearly every Lha volunteer who tells us their story says they gain so much more than they give and how true this is. I feel that I am at the centre of a wonderful network of people all over the read more →
Your Life: Your Choice
By N Namdrol / February 14, 2015
I became a monk with my enthusiastic heart when I was very young and spent eight years in my monastery in Tibet. In fact, I couldn’t study Buddhism there as well as I would have liked, but I did learn some knowledge of rituals. Of course, my parents didn’t want read more →
Home Away From Home
By Sherwin Altarez Mapanoo / January 19, 2015
What makes home a home? Since commencing my volunteering stint at Lha last December, I have been thinking a lot about the notion of “home”, both as a spatial and a political concept, and how my experience working and interacting with many Tibetans in exile has profoundly made me re-think read more →
Providing Safe and Clean Drinking Water
By Johanna G / January 2, 2015
Volunteer job at Lha: scientific advisor/researcher A meaningful life is what most of us are thriving for. This urge seems to be so important, that even His Holiness the Dalai Lama named a book after it “The Meaning of Life”. Many volunteer stories talk about the search for the meaning read more →
One of Seven Billion Human Beings
By Jamyang Tashi / December 19, 2014
Jamyang Tashi’s prize-winning essay entitled “One of Seven Billion Human Beings” is reproduced below. It won the prestigious $1,000 first prize in an essay contest initiated by the Office of Tibet, Washington DC, to commemorate 2014 as the Year of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The contest was open to all Tibetans read more →
The Courage to Move on and Live
By Uday Das, with Ambalika Singh / December 17, 2014
My name is Uday Das. I am from a village in Bihar; I have been working here in McLeod Ganj for the past ten or twelve years. Before opening my tea stall I was working as a chef in a restaurant. There I had eight or nine people working under read more →
Two Pieces by Tenzin Chodon, age 13 years
By Tenzin Chodon, Class VI / December 16, 2014
Festival A festival is like the weather. It comes and goes but all the people become happy to celebrate the festivals like New Year, Diwali, Holi, etc. People also wear new clothes and make delicious food and invite their friends and relatives. Some festivals are celebrated at night and some in read more →
Dust, Rain or Heat…
By Tenzin Tsomo, with Wendhe Choetsoe / November 27, 2014
Wendhe: I see this Tibetan woman almost every day, standing on the road side. She will smile as we greet each other and always offer me laphing*. I, one of her regular customers, asked her few questions and her answers tell her story. Besides being one of her regular customers, read more →
Learning Self-Confidence
By Chuskit Angmo / November 26, 2014
Hello everyone. Myself, I am Chuskit Angmo. I am from Ladakh. I have been here since three months because my main purpose is to study English. So, I joined Lha Academy. Here, English classes and conversation classes are very good because of the experienced teachers. In the beginning some of read more →
Learning Computers as well as English
By Jigmat Rangdol / November 26, 2014
Hello everyone. My name is Jigmat Rangdol. I am from Ladakh. I am 23 years old. I have been here since three months ago. I am studying English here with the hope of getting a better education which I never had before. There are so many classes in McLeod Ganj read more →