It’s hard to believe that the trip is almost over. Since my last post we left Bodghaya and drove to Patna, the capitol city of Bihar, India’s poorest state. That night my roommate and I […]

Inside the Tibetan temple complex the pleasant nun we had met yesterday tells us to wait in the back courtyard. After a few minutes we were brought around to a small side entrance where we […]

Bodhgaya has a number of daily blackouts and brownouts. When the lights go out, they’ll usually start with a pulsing when the incandescent bulb fluctuates from its brightest to dimmest setting in a cyclical pattern […]

After breakfast today we got water from the bus and hopped into three smaller vehicles for our jaunt over fourteen kilometers to the caves where Siddartha meditated for six years as an ascetic living on […]

We are welcomed with much fanfare at the Sujata Children Welfare Trust school in Sujata. After their beginning prayers, the students break off into classes. The little ones sit on a mat outside and recite […]

With the sun still below the horizon and thick cloud cover obscuring any hint of its coming, we walked down the stone steps of the Gangha Ghat in Varanasi. Bundled bodies laid sleeping on stairs, […]