Siddhartha School photos
Lotus and students at Siddhartha School
Sandy with Khen Rinpoche, founder of Siddhartha School
August 02, 2006
August 05, 2006
Lyssa's video: Sikh Golden Temple, Amritsar
August 09, 2006
Chanraszig Gompa (photo by Lyssa Palu-Ay)
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Lyssa, Sandy, Geoff, and Laura on the way up to Shanti Stupa in Leh
Lyssa and Laura offering butter lamps in Dharamsala on the Dalai Lama's birthday
August 25, 2006
New Perspectives & New Lessons Plans
Back again at the Rubin Museum, Lotus takes her turn sharing with the gathered teachers and program funders some of the ideas and inspiration she drew from her time in the Himalayas.
"I was just so powerfully struck by what this experience meant to you as teachers. It's amazing how much advantage you get in teaching out of a very short, intense time and I think we need to remember that these experiences can be really big experiences in the teaching world--and we ought to think about how to create more of them." --Bruce Payne, Executive Director of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
"You [teachers] are bringing back to schools what is such an important part of the East and I am so impressed because I always say there are only three things—you want to inspire kids, you want to educate them, and then they have to take action. From this they will carry away with them something that they can use in their own lives. I think we as a group need to recognize the Rubin Museum for having generated this, so that we can open our eyes to the East as Americans. It is an extraordinary step—imagine if this could be done all over the country, wouldn’t it be a far more compassionate, understanding world?" --Stephen Spahn, Chancellor, The Dwight School