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We met Choqhua, a monk from the small and remote Trakkar Monastery near Labrang in Gansu Province.\u00a0 We spent 3 days staying with him in his little cottage.\u00a0 He took us to the tiny remote village where he grew up and to a nearby cave where the 9th<\/sup> Panchen Lama was said to have meditated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

However, the highlight of our time with him was a visit to a ninety-year-old Ani (a nun named Sadia Tsomo) who went to a cave in a mountain side to meditate when she was twelve.\u00a0 Choqhua and other members of his monastery and the local villagers have provided her with food water and firewood over the years.\u00a0 Choqhua told us they consider her to be the manifestation of the \u2018great mother\u2019 protective deity Green Tara.\u00a0 He also told us she had never seen a foreigner before.<\/p>\n

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The thoughts of meeting this woman who had spent 78 years meditating in a cave inspired me to climb the mountain to her 13,000 ft retreat.\u00a0 Choqhua said that she does come down from her cave once a year to visit the monastery, but that she had never seen a foreigner<\/p>\n

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As we approached the entrance to her cave Choqhua had us stay back as he went in to meet her.\u00a0 Twenty minutes later he came out to let us know that she was too frightened to see a foreigner.\u00a0 I gave my camera to my guide Trashi\u00a0Dhondrup who was able to go in and meet her and take a few photos.\u00a0 Tashi is from Yushu where the April earthquake hit and destroyed the town and the guest house he was building.\u00a0 He asked her to pray for the friends and relatives that he had lost in that tragedy.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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