My Nepal Diary - IV - How to make a Chorten

My Nepal Diary - IV

How to make a Chorten
Mui La pass

This is a high pass just above a Monastery called Ghar Gompa which nestles in the cliffs below- in the distance the snows are Tibet - info by Sujoy Das

One more date to remember 25th April.
Now it is more than one month and still I am restless and clueless. Not sure what I am unto. Should I start working? Or just watch films, sleep, eat apus (alphonso) - and chilled beer.

Waited and saved money for almost 3 years for one visit to the Mustang the forbidden kingdom. Anyways we had already thought when we reach the highest pass we will remember friends who left us by making a Chorten and latter go to Ghar Gompa and light a candle for safe easy journey to our close ones who are suffering. (In the name of our dear friends we also had the khukri rum)

After Ghar Gompa visit - our journey continued to Lo. After reaching Lo - we visited a Stupa (Chorten) inside a cave which was in the school complex. 

This story was told to us by a local painter: Pajang Gurung of Lo Manthang art gallery
*will narrate his story in one of my coming episode.

This is a Chorten of a monk whose body is kept inside the sputa as relics. This Monk had said anyone visits him (stupa) they will never dream any bad dreams. 

After 10 mins we came out of this cave and everyone knows the whole nation faced with the worst bad dream. The good wishes of the monk or the making of neither the Chorten nor the candle nor the rum helped us stop the nature. It is so Zen.