What A Year 2020 Has been!

Varada Effort has planned a medical camp in Lhadak in early July 2020 since August 2019. First, I have encountered problems after problems to secure booking for airtickets from December 2019. To me, it was unbelieveable that the tickets are fully booked one year ahead when there is no special event scheduled to Lhadak at that time of the year. After endless tries by the booking agent, we managed to secure 11 tickets near end of February 2020. But soon after, Covid 19 broke out all over! We were bracing ourselves and placing hope against hope that it will blow over come Apri. On the contrary, it has taken a worse turn. Every country was going for a lockdown! All hopes died come later that month and we had to cancel our tickets for the camp as well as cancel all plans for the opening of the prayer hall for Ngari Institute in August. Got a little depressed and was chatting with Geshe Tsewang one night. We were planning to raise prayer flags as one of our usual rituals when we arrive but now that hope was gone. Our Vesak has passed and soon it was going to be Sagadawa!! I casually asked Geshe la if it is possoible to raise the flags on Sagadawa? He said Yes! We have the flags in our store! Wow! What a joy! Immediatelty I went into action and the rest is history so to speak! I have recorded my hectic fight against time in my blog posted in Ngari Foundation's website. Please go to:- https://www.ngarifoundation.org/blog-archive to view the photos and the videos of the day's ceremony.It turned out that it was the most successful one we have done so far with 60 dharchors and 90 luntas all taken up within 10 days. I guess everyone hope that the devas will help us to fight the epidemic so the earth will recover soon! As the mantra goes:- ki ki laso lha gya lo lha gya lo!!! May we win this war together.