Author: HR Hegnauer

I wrote earlier about walking the Kora path which circumnavigates the Dalai Lama’s temple in a clockwise direction. We’ve still be walking it most days. […] Read More

This morning we went down the hill to Lower Dharamsala to the Gamru Village School‘s annual performance. A few of our students from DU have […] Read More

On Tuesday morning, we met with Ama Adhe to hear her story after surviving 27 years as a political prisoner and then escaping into exile […] Read More

This morning we hiked up the hillside to the Tibetan Children’s Village. There are about 1,500 children who live and study in this little village. […] Read More

Yesterday we took a magnificent and very challenging hike up to a place called Triund. It was roughly 12 miles roundtrip with 4,000 feet of […] Read More

Over the last four mornings, we’ve met with four amazing women from four different oganizations: Tsering Tsomo from the Tibetan Center for Human Rights & […] Read More

Thank you for all the birthday wishes! My birthday started off at 3 am with a phone call from my credit union asking me if […] Read More

This morning we walked down the road to visit Gu Chu Sum, an organization that works with former political prisoners who have come into exile […] Read More

We had the incredible good fortune of hearing the Dalai Lama speak! He opened a conference in Lower Dharamsala called “In the Path of Buddha […] Read More

What is your dream for your next life? “My biggest dream was that for my next life, I wanted to go to school, and I […] Read More

It’s 2:22 am in the New Delhi airport and it is a bustling place! I’ve been people-watching here for three hours as the students trickle […] Read More