While I was eating my breakfast, someone knocked my door. When I opened the door, I saw our…
The hailstorm and its severity came true followed by torrential rains. What could have caused this? Was it all the gossip or did someone offend a local spirit? Even through the rituals and meditation I had been practicing was not sufficient enough to protect the village from it. I thought…
Nima is a Tibetan nun. She is now forty-eight. Although childless, she maintains close with her surviving family. Her father was a ritualist before her, and her mother was successful in the art of healing, where Nima has a strong interest, though she is…
Wangdue and I arrived in the village’s center district where the boy from the next village was speaking about the Naga illness. From what we were able to make out, the villagers had agreed to send some doctors and ritualists to the boy’s village to assist with the outbreak. I…
The prediction of hailstorm proved to be accurate, though something about the hailstorm concerns Nima. She believes that there could be something else behind the hailstorm, as torrential rains followed, flooding most of her village, but not her brother’s…
