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Low life

10 September 2016

9:00 AM

10 September 2016

9:00 AM

Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
This morning I was woken just before daylight by the clear ‘ting’ of a meditation bell. The owner of the house was attending to his religious devotions in the little private chapel across the courtyard from my room. He is an ‘Amchi’, I’ve been told, which is a Ladakhi word for the village herbal-medicine man and astrologer.

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