Through My Eyes                                                                                                                                                                                          * I haven't yet had a chance to work on the sculpture of Tara Drolma since I've had much work to do in the Grove. I've worked some more on the pictures for the loom page... Here we can see your loom in action!   We've much to complete beautiful one. In Phayul a news article describes that yet again, the Chinese government is avoiding negotiations with the Dalai Lama and denouncing his middle way view of Tibetan autonomy within China as "splittism".  We can read of this here .             Tibetans long ago learned that anger and fear, far from being a natural part of human life, are mental poisons that interfere with our understanding the true reality and that they are consequences of each other. In the Chinese goverment's  response we see the rhetoric born of fear. In their actions within Tibet we see the inevitable resulting hatred that ruins the lives of both those that perpetuate it and those that must endure it. please click here  to continue...                                                                                                                                                           * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for                                                                           the sketches is  courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.