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Red rice, a delicacy from this area, had been collected. Rice stocks with grains still on them were kept separate, in piles marked with a top.
A few steps from the short and narrow stretch that was this Avenue there was an old farmhouse. There a man was sitting on the ground cutting stones while a woman was carrying her baby on her back in the front-yard.
They were from the College of Natural Resources that had put in a fenced “Avenue of Plantation” next to the dirt road that led to the temple.
There are 10,000 monks (and 1000 nuns) in Bhutan. Some of the other Bhutanese boys were playing soccer a few hundred yards down from the temple.
He pointed out the painting of lotus and said “lotus symbolizes detachment from suffering, from the muck of the soil“.
Next to the temple was a black stupa. “In it is buried a burned dog that was the demon woman,” our guide said. “That is why it is black.”
Many were reciting the texts placed before them, while gently bobbing their heads. “They are moving to the rhythm of the old Buddhist text they are reading,” our guide said.
In one grouping there were four animals. The guide explained: “The bird brought the seed of the tree, the rabbit fertilized it, the monkey watered it, and the elephant protected it.”
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