Word: leh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, streams of Buddhist pilgrims braving high winds and sub-zero temperatures had made their way along some of the world's tallest mountains in central Kashmir. Most came on foot, some by yak, the more affluent by treacherous day-long Jeep or bus rides. Their destination: Leh, a remote stronghold of the Tibetan culture that had been selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled God-King, for a rare spiritual event...
...second of the three days in Leh was an extraordinary test of devotion. No sooner had the saffron-robed speaker begun preaching from his brocade throne than a freezing downpour began, soaking the congregation of 18,000. Everyone sat silently in the rain for four hours, while the air hung heavy with the smell of incense and wet earth. "What faith they must have!" an Indian army officer marveled. "I couldn't sit there for ten minutes...
...rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...
...style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting Marietta's Lied, sound like pure Franz Lehár, the master of popular Viennese operetta...