Travel Day 649 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the course participants had left yesterday, I could not believe how nice and quiet Kopan Monastery had become over night… Since there was no class and no schedule at all today, it was really nice to use the time to relax and just simply enjoy myself. […]

Travel Day 648 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was already our last day of the Buddhist introduction course and I joined only the morning meditation… Afterwards a special long life puja happened in the main Gompa, in order to pray for good health and a long life of the slowly recovering Lama Zopa, one of […]

Travel Day 646-47 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After one week of teachings and basic meditation practices, the last two days of the Discovering Buddhism course were set up as a real retreat… A retreat in this case meant that we had no more Buddhist teachings and just focused on different types of meditations. We had […]

Travel Day 640-45 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the excitement of the first day, things started to become a little bit more of a routine after the second one. Also since every single day was planned out with classes from beginning to end, one day after the other just seemed to pass by more […]

Travel Day 639 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL We went to bed in silence yesterday evening, but when the 5.45am morning bell rang, I noticed how difficult the discovering of Buddhism was going to be, when I accidentally said a forbidden “good morning” to my dorm-mates… The morning tea in the cafeteria was then in silence […]

Travel Day 638 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was my first full day at the Buddhist monastery and in the evening my 10 day introductory meditation course would start. When I had signed up for this Discovering Buddhism class, I thought it would be a good idea to arrive a day earlier to settle-in before […]

Travel Day 637 – Kathmandu to Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was time to leave Kathmandu again and especially Thamel, but unfortunately I still had to get few last things organized… First off I had to run to a travel agency again to make sure I would get the fights that I had decided on over […]