Rabsel in his Khana Nirvana days
Photo: Dara Auckman
Working with Contact and Lha, I have learnt about the world from people from different cultural backgrounds across the world. Learning about their culture, tradition and different lifestyles; my awareness of the world view has expanded in such a way that I believe I wouldn’t get that exposure and learning from any school or universities in the world. Working for Contact magazine, the need and the opportunity to stay updated with both international and Tibetan news, and getting involved with writers and readers who are mostly non Tibetans, I have found ways to stay connected with happenings in the world, particularly what’s happening inside Tibet.
It all revolves around working with people for the people, and I also saw it as a medium to connect with international people. With the nature of Lha’s work as a social work institution, I consider my time at Lha as life’s greatest experience. There is no greater joy in the opportunities to get involved in solving people’s problems through community services. Life is only meaningful when it is for the service of people.
Many of the people I have met while working on Contact and at Lha have become my lifelong friends and I am in touch with most of them.
Rabsel now in his café, Common Ground
The idea of Contact was important for someone like me who came from Tibet where there is no freedom to disseminate information. Initially I thought Contact was a great medium to share Tibet news to the international community through travellers visiting Dharamshala as well as to the younger generation of Tibetans and the local Indian community and it did serve all those purposes. But in line with the Buddhist concept of impermanence, with time, everything changes and these days the need for print magazines or newspapers has changed…and we are stepping forward with changes.
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