Arunachal And The Tawang Monastery Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I can just hear about the Tawang Monastery of Arunachal
And can say nothing more,
One of the Tibetan Budhist type,
Standing at the foothill
Purviewing the hills and the mountains
And the valleys,
In the midst of greenery and hilly surroundings.

Arunachal’s Tawang Monastery,
Of the land of the dawn-lit,
Tells of a faith sustained and survived by,
A relic of the Tibeto-Burman stock
As the earlier tribes were from
Which we can mark it from
To trace back
To the Mahayana school of Buddhism too.

Tawang Monastery founded by the Mera Lama Lodre Gyasto
In accordance with the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama, Nagwang Lobsang Gyatso,
It belongs to the Gelupa sect
And the Tibetan name, ta-horse, wang-chosen,
Meaning hereby Horse-chosen too indicates
The things mystically and mythically,
Merag Lama searching fior the horse
And finding it to tick on
For the probable selction.

The eight-metre Shakyamuni Buddha in Tawang Gompa
Looking golden and beautiful
Endearing to the Monpas, Takpas and the Tibetans,
Who are but the Tibetan-Buddhists
And the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyasto, was born
At the nearby Urgelling Monastery,
5 kms. from the town of Tawang.

The monastery known in Tibetan
As Golden Namgey Lhatse,
Which means 'celestial paradise in a clear night’,
Is what we do not know it
In our tongues,
Really, an India unexplored
And far flung,
Indiscoverable too
With such geographical and physical variations,
Who can at least venture into?