APR-C-1
THE MEDICAL MISSION TO DHARAMSALA
- The Index to Apr-C-1 series, the “Medical Mission to Dharamsala”.
- Takeoff from IAD via FRA to DEL enroute to Dharamsala many drowsy hours
and even more air miles later, with a check-in of the bags and medical baggage.
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- My parting email note as i leave from dc
through fra to del enroute to dharamsala.
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- The note sent by a fellow traveler on the Antarctic “cruise” on the Orlova,
who then had traveled on around South America, reporting on scenes she saw
and referring to friends’ pictures showing the same islands—and perhaps the
same seals and penguins I had seen and photographed around the marathon. Read
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- DRAMATIS PERSONNAE of our DHARAMSALA medical mission as we set up shop in
the DALAI LAMA’s summer palace. Read
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- Our first day at work and “on station” begins with a glorious long run
through the birdsong of tropical dawn toward the “WHITE RIDGE” DHAULADHAR
the next stage is a spectacular ceremonial opening of the medical camp and
the diplomatic reception by the speaker of the h.p. parliament and I as we are garlanded with flowers, and
process to our MAHARAJAH’s tented reception pavillion for tea and audiences
with the people after a full and busy clinic, we adjorn for dinner at the
government guest house after a formal session in instruction in the techniques
of BUDDHIST meditation. Read
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- Again awash in the tropical birdsong of dawn in the lush garden of the royal
TARAGARH palace, we begin a second full clinic day in our medical camp after
a full second clinic day in the school rooms we have overtaken as the displaced
students sing and pose for us, i make a solo stroll through the countryside
from the government guest house toward the sound of the chanting
from the tibetan BIR monastery, and find myself included in the ceremonies
of the clapping salute of buddhis debate, as the “only european outsider”
in the temple—thereby missing the meditation sessuion with them, but meting
a foursome who come to talk with me about LEOPARD HUNT. The third day
of clinic in the school is preceded by a run through the birdsong and a contemplative
moment of waiting in rose gardens before and after the full medical camp nonparticipants
are bored, absorbing huge amounts of special attention and resources, while
students are fascinated with the panoply of ordinary things in differential
diagnoses: hernias, pilonidal cysts, congnital defects, abscesses, tb, arthritis,
and the exotic: a rachitic rosary, potts disease, multiple chondroma syndrome,
baker’s cyst, and i admire a holy man’s sacred trout, the “tcv” (“tibetan
children’s village”) and “dhamvantri”, lord of physicians. Read
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- The fourth and final clinic day at school setting, as we have to send a
few away for special entertainment bathe in birdsong of dawn at TARAGARH ROSE
GARDEN. Read
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- SHERBULING monastery clinic day after check out from TARAGARH PALACE, and
a return to NORBULINGKA, SHERBULING monastery tour and clinicfollowed by an
audience with the head lama, RIMPOCHE SITU PAI, and our conversation with
him, then a long, long ride to return via DHARAMSALA to NORBULINGKA. Read
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- Launch our trekking days to the mountaintop and overnight stay under the
stars at DHARAMSALA we scatter through MCLEOD GUNJ, and then begoin
hike up to summit camp on top of mount TRIUND, AMID SHEEP AND GOLDEN EAGLES,
then return to MCLEOD, awaiting return of the lost, then tour NORBULINGKA
institute before return to MCLEOD GUNJ for tourist shopping and dinner. Read
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- LAUNCH OUR TREKKING DAYS TO THE MOUNTAINTOP AND OVERNIGHT
STAY UNDER THE STARS AT DHARAMSALA. Read
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- THANK YOU MESSAGE FOR THE DHARAMSALA MEDICAL MISSION.
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