http://thingsasian.com/taxonomy/term/383/all?sort_by=totalcount en http://thingsasian.com/story/awe-landscape-mountains-and-machinations-sikkim <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Gangtok, the Sikkimese state capital, lies in the district of East Sikkim. Getting to Gangtok from Bagdogra Airport (in adjacent West Bengal State) is a trip in itself, along a tortuously winding road, where gushing waterfalls rush over the lichen-covered rocks that line the roadside...</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:26:52 +0000 Anonymous 2543 at http://thingsasian.com http://thingsasian.com/story/confronting-fear-sikkim <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I’ve long had a perhaps unreasonable fear of Tibetan Buddhism. Maybe it’s all those pictures of bloodthirsty demons. So, when the opportunity came to visit the Himalayan state of Sikkim, feelings of anticipation were a little tinged, to say the very least. But a visit to the monasteries of Sikkim came as a release. These monasteries contain some of the world’s finest collections of Mahayana Buddhist art.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:06:28 +0000 Anonymous 2540 at http://thingsasian.com