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Trails Of Fascination A German
soldier-turned-Buddhist monk releases his book and puts up his photographs of Kathmandu to
help raise funds to renovate a monastery in Mustang By A CORRESPONDENT Sugata is an interesting character. A
soldier in the Hitler’s Germany, he later went to Sweden to live a life of refugee. But his life changed drastically after he
came to Nepal via Sarnath. Under the patronage of Amritananda, he became a devoted
Buddhist monk. Even though he currently lives in Norway, Sugata keeps coming back to Nepal
to keep his memories of this mystic place alive. This time Sugata, 93, came to Kathmandu for
a very noble purpose. At a program organized by the Mandala Publications and Mandala Book
Point at the Patan Museum last week, Sugata released his book “Bird of Passage”
– written by himself and Rachel Kellet. In a program participated by scores of
ex-pats and the Nepalese, Sugata also announced that he was going to put up the
photographs he had taken in 1950s of Kathmandu and Kali Gandaki to help raise fund to
renovate an ancient Tibetan-style monastery called Chhairo Gompa of Thak Khola in Mustang.
“I think it is a gracious move to use
my photos to help a small Tibetan monastery in Mustang,” said Sugata. Sugata had gone to Sweden in 1945 after the
second world war. In 1954 he came to Nepal with his wife Ingrid. Both later became
Buddhist monks. His photographs of the Nepal during the
1950s and 60s are most fascinating. It takes the audience back to the past in a rendezvous
with the Nepal and Kathmandu that was. The pictures of Bhaktapur and Banepa of
that time speaks volumes about changing times. He has also taken photos of the cremation
of King Tribhuwan then. Recollecting his experiences back then, Sugata writes “I had
to go to Indian embassy to register a letter to Europe.” |
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