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Dalai Lama's Home-in-Exile Is Hippie Haven

Posted Apr 13, 08 8:30 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  World 

(Newser) – Western ex-patriots have turned the Dalai Lama's home-in-exile into a hippie hotspot, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Himalayan town of Dharamsala, population 20,000, has become a center for for espresso-sipping yoga-lovers and web-surfing monks. Many more come in search of wisdom, but the town is not without its “charlatans,” says one settler.

“You cannot deny that Dharamsala has something to it,” says an Israeli who helped the Dalai Lama and is now building South Asia’s biggest wireless network. “It does something to you—and it’s a good thing.” Artists, social workers, and intellectuals worldwide come to visit, digest the Tibetan culture, and end up staying. “The feeling is that we are together,” one says.

Source Christian Science Monitor

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Tibetan exiles pray as they participate in a candlelit vigil in Dharamsala, India, Thursday, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche speaks to the public in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 22, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
Tibetan exiles react emotionally as they raise anti-China slogans at a protest march in Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures during a press conference in Dharamsala, India, in this March 16, 2008 file photo.   (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)
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