Living Purely 

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine”.
(The Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

This young man is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, we met in Hemis Gompa, a monastery located in the Ladakh region of the Western Himalayas, at an altitude of 12,000 feet making it one of the highest settlements of the world.
He was kind enough to spend an afternoon with me in the monastic complex and to open a few rooms where I could see amazing statues among other marvels.
We managed to talk, I was mixing English and Hindi and he was answering in Ladakhi and Tibetan that I don’t speak at all however we managed to understand eachother.
His name is Jigmat Stanzin Lama and he must be one of the purest soul I ever met so far.
I’ll never forget those precious moments, like this one when he was blowing in a ceremonial trumpet in order to welcome several monks and the oracle who were coming back from a ceremony that they had to perform in the hills.