Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 62 Winnipeg free september travel 7 Dalai Lama in exile Tibet captivates author by Annemarie Tobin the Canadian press the Corpse of a Young tibetan woman is Cut into tiny pieces with surgical pounded into a pulp and mixed with Barley Tea and Yak then fed to hungry the extraordinary ceremony on a Rocky plateau near the capital Lhasa is part of the sky burial and an that haunted Niema Ash after her travels in i turn away Many unable to then turn unable not to she writes in flight of the wind horse a journey into the Forward to the Book was writ ten by the Dalai the Nobel peace prizewinning political and spiritual Leader exile of who will visit Toronto and Ottawa in although shocking to westerners who take a More Antiseptic approach to the sky burial As Ash explains in the an ancient ritual at the heart of tibetan culture and gentle people one of the few westerners to have witnessed the ceremony in before China closed Tibet to individual travellers Ash said a tibetan Friend explained that buddhists who believe in reincarnation see it As an act of Charity to the it is also a matter of economics in the mountainous where the gentle people cannot afford to waste soil for burial or Wood for i gradually grew to understand accept it and to appreciate the Montr Alborn who now lives in said in a Toronto boo launching cameras were strictly forbidden at the sky they believe that the body has to be taken into the said a tiny woman whose face is surrounded by an unruly mass of dark Brown taught dance so if you trap it in a its a bad Omen for Ash is a travel addict who gets a dreamy faraway look in her Brown eyes when she talks about she is like a Gypsy who has travelled far and wide but belongs to no particular time or she married in Israel and has a grown daughter living in san fran she taught dance in South completed a hitchhiked through North Africa and Europe and ran a Folk club in Montreal where musicians like Bob Dylan but there was something about Tibet that captured her imagination and prompted her to write a travel feature that evolved into her first the people Are untouched by the she they exude this wonderful acceptance of Ash laments the treatment of Tibet by which invaded and occupied the country in chinese troops crushed a revolt by the Tibe tans in 1959 and the Dalai Lama and his government were forced into prayer hag think of it the Dalai Lama has won the Nobel peace prize yet Hes not accepted by any world govern ment except said Hes sort of and that because countries Are terrified at provoking flight of the wind horse a wind horse is a mystical animal pictured on the tibetan prayer Flag that carries blessings into the world draws a picture of the cafes and guest houses in As seen through the eyes of a visitor under the spell of the tibetan but it is also ass lighthearted account about the camaraderie with fellow d the author leaves Tibet As a passenger in the Back of a 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