Saturday, July 21, 2012

After 7 years away, Tibetan Buddhist leader, 13, visits Seattle-area family

Chuck Pettis, left, co-executive director of the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in Seattle, shows respect as Asanga and his grandfather Jigdal Dagchen Sakya leave a service. After the 1959 Chinese crackdown in Tibet, Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and his family fled to India then later came to Seattle as part of a UW research project about Tibetan culture.