today is a very special day we drove two hours outside of Kathmandu to come to
this area called Namo Buddha and here there is a monastery up in the mountains where
they have guest houses so we are going to stay here overnight and learn a bit
more about Buddhism and spend some time with the monks that live here
the air is so much fresher up here and it's cold it is cold and it's getting
cold looks like it's going to rain but that would be good though clears up the
sky a bit can you actually see yeah a lot of mountains from here yeah not just here even
from my workplace you can see like 180. wow for those of you who haven't watched any of
our other videos that we filmed in Nepal this is our friend Nyima hello Nyima hello Namaste
he's been really kind to show us Kathmandu and this time he took us over here to Namo Buddha and
helped us arrange the monastery stay and going to spend a day with us here as well
I'll give you a room tour of our simple room here in the monastery so when you walk in you
have the washroom over here the toilet the shower everything you need and then there's
also a big wardrobe here for you to put your stuff a table here maybe for you to
do some learning if you're interested to learn about Buddhism while you're here it's nice I
like that they give us so much space because sometimes space is what we need in a marriage
it's really nice and it's very comfortable it's very very clean and we pay 3500 rupees
per night and it also includes right here it says three meals so breakfast at seven lunch
at noon and dinner at six or seven depends on if it's summer or winter and also two prayer
sessions and all of these are with the monks so we'll take our guest pass and then we just go
over to I guess like the dining hall and have our meals and tomorrow they have a big prayer
ceremony at six in the morning and because it is the 10th day of the Tibetan month it will be an
even bigger prayer session than usual one thing I noticed though that it's so quiet it is so quiet
we actually have the side that doesn't have the view of the mountains because that side is
booked out there's actually tourists coming here to study Buddhism to spend time with the monks
here to learn more about you know their religion so they come and stay for sometimes weeks and yeah
they booked out the side with the views but it's okay we got to see it anyways from the rooftop
so the story behind why Namo Buddha is such a sacred place is because thousands of years ago
something happened here you can see behind me here this is the Buddha in a previous life he
wandered away from his family and into a forest where he encountered a tigress and her five Cubs
and they were starving and The Tigress was so weak she was near the brink of death and
at that moment he had so much compassion for her and her Cubs that he decided he wanted to
sacrifice his own life for her and her children and this is the story of his compassion and when
he reincarnated he became the Buddha that most of us now know as the Buddha the enlightened one and
it happened somewhere around here and that's why you see this imagery all over the monastery here
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should we sit here
best seat in the monastery yeah
so what are we having Note we're having masala tea
how is it
it is so good you know I usually don't drink tea with milk yeah
but Masala tea in Nepal has been amazing we forgot to cheers
oh the sky is clearing up the mountains here are so beautiful they stack it's like a watercolour
painting it has different depths different colors so in Nepal when we say hello to people
we would say namaste and you're supposed to hold your hands together Namaste but at the
monastery here when we see the monk we don't say Namaste we say Tashi Delek and you do the same and we will
put that into practice when we see the monks later it's commonly used by the people living
in the mountains so so those who have a Buddhist background they would say Tashi Delek would you say that to
other people not just monks in the mountains yeah you can say that yeah I I say that to my parents
also I say that to everyone but if I ever to say that to my Hindu friends they wouldn't understand
so to my Hindu friends I say namaste
so the reason why we are staying here at Namo Buddha Monastery for a night and also being able to film
a little bit to show you is because Nyima knows this Monastery really well I would come here uh
often to receive blessing from our masters so we would come once in a while to receive his
blessing and visit Monastery and attend special prayer ceremony it's 5:30 and because right now it's
summertime dinner is at seven o'clock so later on we will go and join the monks for
dinner I'm quite excited for that because I've never really been in the presence of a lot of
monks before I was going to ask you that in Thailand female are not allowed to be close to
monks is it the same here it's not like it's not like that can you stand close together like this
because in Thailand you need to maintain certain distance away from the monk
today we have a special treat let's see what we have here we have this Buddhist cheese chili
we call this "ema datshi" it's a very traditional food Buddhist food very spicy cheese and chili the young monk
he made it so it will be spicy right yeah very spicy it depends actually it's a
bit spicy yes a little bit spicy tonight we eat spicy delicious yeah and
then there you go this is "thukpa" vegetarian noodle with some eggs on top of it and this dish is
thukpa yes
this will be your dinner tonight looks amazing
is it your first time eating together like this yeah
it's a very very cozy home here and we are just really lucky to be able to eat
together with the monks here tomorrow though we will join them for a meal
in the main dining hall so we'll get to experience a different setting tomorrow
smells good
it is really perfect we were sitting downstairs in the
cafe having some tea and we're like well it's getting colder and colder
so we were really excited for this these chillies all the way from Bhutan it could be spicy
so Note and I went to the same school but he was the first international student from Thailand to go
that's delicious
I never thought that chili and cheese would mix this good
this is so comforting
so morning prayer just ended and we're now having breakfast
what is that
peanut butter
they just gave us peanut butter to go with um our this is like a steamed bun so the
breakfast is the steamed bun and the bean soup and we also get some Tibetan tea Tibetan tea is
like a salty broth there's some butter there's some salt in there it does taste more like a
soup than a tea but this is a tea that would keep you warm in the cold weather like today
let's have breakfast
it's good
I'm waiting for more peanut butter it's actually really good with the bun
oh I missed out
I got distracted and peanut butter walked right past me
how is that experience for you it was quite special just sitting there listening to them
feeling the drums the beat and it kind of vibrates into your heart also just like watching all the
monks pray and they pray in different ways like the little monks can't concentrate so
they're kind of moving around hitting each other a little bit they're curious as to why
we're there and then we get the older monks who are more disciplined some are snapping some are
swaying their bodies like there's many different ways that they're getting into the rhythm of the
prayer it's a very different experience than I have had before in Thailand in Thailand we
usually don't have instruments but here the chanting is more upbeat it has only been
one night but we feel like we learned so much about Buddhism and open to learning more about
it's not just a religion but more like it moral principles
a way of life that you know anyone who's interested to learn about can utilize in
their life and if you're interested in having the same experience staying here at the monastery we'll leave
the information in the description box below so you can have the same wonderful experience as
we had and all the proceeds go towards the education of the young monks so it's for a
very good cause if you're interested make sure to come to Nepal and visit Namo Buddha Monastery
thanks again for watching and as always have a wonderflo day we'll see you in the next one
bye-bye bloopers in Thailand you don't have to be a monk but a lot of young people become
a monk to say thank you to their mom but for me I was a monk because I got paid to do so
isn't that attachment to money and materialism
it's defeating the purpose
it did defeat the purpose but I was too young
to understand all I wanted just 300 Baht to go play games
your mom was okay with that
you kind of see the mist floating on top of the hill
but can you imagine on a sunny day like the the clouds above still below you
one of the shots okay what are you guys saying imagine I'm imagining
is it too early