We're in a Buddhist gompa in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and the Venerable Tenzin Tsepal is leading a meditation. |
All the men of that village were helping to build a new gompa atop a ridge overlooking the valley. |
Diskit gompa is over 500 years old and might have grown out the mountainside. |
Once completed, the gompa would house a half-dozen lamas, or Buddhist priests, and would be the largest for miles around. |
We cross the river for the southern bank which we then go along towards the W to reach the monastery of Totung gompa. |
As I searched for the trail head, I heard loud drumbeats coming from the white gompa above the village. |