CrypticFragments blogs about her experiences in Tibet on her blog ‘Sacred Sojourns‘. Since she’s been contributing quality spiritual hubs to squidoo for ages, and recently inspired my first blogpost about MY trip to India (planned for next year or the year after), I thought it was about time I feature her here.

She shares a lot about the situation for Tibetans in Exile as well as the place she’s staying, which is the part time home of the Dalai Lama: Dharamsala, particularly McleodGanj. She shares a lot about various aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, like the famous prayer wheels for instance.

But perhaps I should start at the beginning: Buddhism is a world religion, but like Christianity it comes in all kinds of flavors. One of those flavors is Tibetan Buddhism. But Tibetan Buddhism itself consists of various schools. Learn more about that on Crypticfragments lens about the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. If you thought that’s where it stopped, you’d be wrong. For instance, within the Kagyupa, one of the four schools, there’s a subschool called Karma Kagyu, the head of which is called the Karmapa. Like the Dalai Lama’s these are reincarnated regularly, we’re at the 17th Karmapa right now, as opposed to only the 14th Dalai Lama.

Witch China interfering, such successions are becoming a source for controversy. Read Sacred Sojourn’s lens about the Panchen Lama controversy, for instance.