A monastery with wifi: notes from Bhutan

The monks at Tango Goemba have a small server room behind a thangka. I went looking for silence and found a quiet conversation about attention instead.

A small server room behind a thangka.

Getting there

An hour up the hill from Thimphu. Take a thermos.

What I expected

Silence.

What I found

A quiet conversation about attention, with a small fan whirring under it.

Coming home

The wifi works in Rajshahi too. The attention does not always come back.

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