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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified woman. Timecode In: 00:11:54. Timecode out: 00:14:02. Notes: Discusses a holy site. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Bob Moseley. Timecode In: 00:20:44. Timecode out: 00:23:54. Notes: Discusses local flora. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified woman. Timecode In: 00:35:08. Timecode out: 00:35:41. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Bob Moseley. Timecode In: 01:08:25. Timecode out: 01:10:00. Notes: Discusses local flora. Show: YGRP Log of DAT #: 8 Engineer: Bill McQuay Date: 001016 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 0:11:57 So this, they come here and worship at this holy place¿yeah¿which is that rock face across the river¿yeah¿and they build small stone houses¿If they're dead, they like to stay at that house¿when they're dead¿soft English¿for the next life, they will come visit here in the small houses built for the pilgrims and the village people¿and ¿pilgrims¿so this is a very holy place. And what does the rock face represent?¿there? ..there¿when people are going they have, maybe have a hole¿I see, there's a holy person there, practicing Buddhism in that place. 0:13:48 Could he name this place again? ¿consultation in T¿do you want to go to the falls?¿I don't know what we're going to do¿take two hours, a little difficult¿T¿ Interview With Bob Moseley (0:20:47 - 0:24:13) 0:20:47 (ok) -Seems as we get closer to the mountain, it looks more and more like a rain forest. -But no ferns, I haven't seen ferns except for that last half km down to the village. So what's the story, too cold a winter? -Well, it's still a temperate climate¿ -But you get ferns in.. -This here's a fern. -Wouldn't recognize them as ferns -Yeah, the ones with the whole leaves¿these are like a tropical cloud forest. They're more like the rain forests of the Pacific coast¿in North America¿(on mic) (g) Most of the epiflytes, the plants that grow on other plants, in this case trees are mostly mosses, really thick mosses on tree bark, especially certain species of trees. If you walked into this forest off the trail, you'd find it's very¿cushy¿ -Soft? -Soft, yeah, you'd sink in. it's very soft walking because all of the moss and the leaves build up. And it's a high enough elevation, we're up here at 10,300 feet, so things don't decompose very fast, so you have this really soft... -Duff¿ -Yeah, duff, but some of it's living like these moss layers. You might have noticed yesterday, as we get closer in to the mountains, the clouds are, there's much more cloud cover over the high peaks. So this is a much wetter place. -And the trees are bigger. -The trees are gigantic, including these fir. Most of these are fir, but there's also hemlock, this one is a really big maple tree¿other species, but mostly fir and hemlock and maple. 0:24:13 Ambi from interview site, really short 0:25:00 Walking 0:26:50 -So what is this site? -The water comes from the mountain, it's a spring. And the water is medicinal, so if somebody is ill, they can drink some and get well -T -There's also a place to pray, a very special and ritualized place to recite sutras -T & Chinese -So the water is actually coming from a lotus flower, which means it's a honey liquor that's coming out of the mountain. It appears as water, but it's actually honey liquor from the heart of a lotus. -T -The name of this? -T & C -So not only does this cure illness, but it also gives you courage and it also helps you to be good to other people. -But does it have a name? -Secular word, pamasadmu¿ -The name is Menzaguroh-chu -Is there a translation? -¿It can't translate into English because it's a sacred word. It's a form of Sanskrit, it is not Tibetan¿ -¿Pamasadmu was who again? -Chinese¿ -First a teacher, Buddhism teacher who spread Buddhism into Tibet. -¿... (Notes truncated)
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- 6 Jan 2010 - David McCartt
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