Yesterday, I stumbled across a photo of Phuktal, a Buddhist monastery carved into the side of a mountain in Zanskar, a remote region in the Himalayas. I wanted to know more about it and found myself searching through YouTube.
Be forewarned, the video attached is 1.5 hours long. It is a documentary about a culture radically different from our own. Specifically, it is the story of two young girls who come of age. One must marry a man chosen by her parents. The other is the first woman, on her own, to leave the village and travel to Dharmsala (residence of the Dalai Lama) to become a Buddhist nun.
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