The path of enlightenment is lonely and narrow for monks at Taktshang Monastery, who take turns meditating alone in a cliffside retreat for three years, three months, three weeks, and three days. Taktshang, the Tiger's Den, is where the great Guru Rimpoche, who first brought Buddhism to Bhutan, is said to have arrived on a flying tiger in the eighth century.
—From "Bhutan: Kingdom in the Clouds," May 1991, National Geographic magazine
Journey across the Himalaya to the isolated peaks of Bhutan, where the Buddhist citizens of this "hermit kingdom" are catching up to the modern world at a slow and gentle pace.
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