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January Prayer Requests
Starting this year, we are going to list things that you can be praying for us for. We will try and list these at the start of each month. So, here is our list of prayer requests for January: 1. Safe...
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Winter in Kham
A few days before Christmas, we made our way back to the northern Tibetan Plateau, where we have kept an apartment for the past 8 years. It was great seeing all of our Tibetan friends who live in that...
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Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrims
Last month as I was driving 800 miles across the eastern Tibetan Plateau, I came across hundreds of Buddhist pilgrims on their way to a holy mountain or famous monastery. Every 3 steps they prostrate...
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February Prayer Requests
We always need people to be committed to praying for us on a daily basis. Here is a list of our prayer requests for February: 1. Visa’s…..We still have not been granted work permits or business visa’s....
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Crazy Weather
It is mid-July on the Tibetan Plateau. It is supposed to be the warmest time of year. Normal temperatures are in the upper 60’s and low 70’s. However, for nearly the past week, the temperatures have...
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Yushu: 18 months after the earthquake
Last month, I (Jamin) made the long journey to Yushu prefecture ཡུལ་ཤུལ་་ཁུལ།. From the city, it is 825 kilometers (515 miles) to the prefecture capital of Jyekundo སྐྱེ་དགུ་མདོ་ and 1000 kilometers...
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Photos and stories from across Yushu Prefecture
I returned a few weeks ago from an 8 day, 1100 mile (2000 miles total) journey across Yushu Prefecture ཡུལ་ཤུལ་་ཁུལ།. I traveled with our good Tibetan friend TS along with some good European friends...
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2 1/2 years after the Yushu Earthquake
It has now been nearly 2 1/2 years since the devastating 7.1 magnitude Yushu Earthquake. I just returned last week from spending time in this region. Shortly after the earthquake, the government...
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First week back
In the early morning hours of December 31st, our family arrived safely at our home on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau. Our flight path took us from Seattle to San Francisco to Beijing to...
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Prayer walking at Labrang Monastery
I came back recently from a 3 day trip to the nearby town of Labrang. Labrang lies 4 hours south of the city and has the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Home to...
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