{"id":1860,"date":"2017-05-13T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serrasagra.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2017-12-16T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:35:58","slug":"india-5-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serrasagra.com\/india-5-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"India 5 – Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dalai Lama gives only a few teachings a year in Dharamshala because he is traveling all year long. Thousands of people join his teachings. Registration for the teachings starts 3 days ago. The day we would join the teaching, we started off at 4.30 am in the morning with the crazy taxis I have mentioned in the previous articles. We were in Dharamshala around 6 am and joined the line for the registration immediately. The line was full of with monks and people from all over the world. Thankfully, we were ahead in the line because we got there really early. After us, the line got longer and longer. After you register, you have to go through security check. You are not allowed to go in with cell phones and cameras. There is a place there where you can leave them. You may think why is there security control in a monastery. Unfortunately because of the relations between Tibet and China, even here they have to check for security.<\/p>\n
When we were registering, the person in charge told us that we have to go to the area where the teaching will take place, if we want to find a place to sit. Luckily we had listened to him. Even though it was early in the morning, the area was full of people. Monks were sitting in the front. Where you sit is an open area with a shelter on it. There is a closed place in the middle where Dalai Lama talks. There are also big screens because not everyone can see Dalai Lama. Since we couldn’t sit all together, everyone found a place to sit. Three of us (Naghmeh, Tugba and me), we squeezed in a place where we can see Dalai Lama right behind the monks and started to wait. Dalai Lama gives his teaching in Tibetan, and on specific radio channels, you can listen to simultaneous translations in English, Korean, Russian and in some other languages. But to do that, you need to have an FM radio and headphones with you. So thanks to my MP3 player and Naghme’s headphone splitter, we were waiting all ready. There were many Tibetan sitting behind us. Suddenly, there was a commotion and all these people sitting behind, rushed to the door of the place where Dalai Lama would speak. You need to have a special permission to get in\u00a0that area but there is a possibility that people without permission got there in that chaos.<\/p>\n