https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-srinagar-to-amarnath-and-ladakh-via-the-zoji-la-pass/ Gardenvisit.com Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:42:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-srinagar-to-amarnath-and-ladakh-via-the-zoji-la-pass/#comment-4912 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:42:14 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=8644#comment-4912 ‘Watch this space’, as they say, we are working on it.
The underlying idea is a conceptual expansion of the mandala plan on which Arup’s architectural design for the school was based. The Shey Mandala can grow into the surrounding landscape. See http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2012/08/19/mandala-landscapes-for-stupas-temples-gardens-and-the-druk-white-lotus-school-dwls/
Physically, the idea is likely to draw upon the relationship between the Dharma Wheel and protective dragons which form the symbol of the Drukpa Lineage. See http://www.drukpa.org/index.php/Introduction/the-drukpa-lineage But literalism could be a problem: too regressive; too sentimental; too….?

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-srinagar-to-amarnath-and-ladakh-via-the-zoji-la-pass/#comment-4911 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:48:43 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=8644#comment-4911 Tom please tell us more about the dragon garden you were dreaming of, before the ‘local dragon’ stirred.

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