Paljor was born around 1945 in Dzonga, Tibet, and fled with his parents to Nepal in 1959 from the Chinese invasion of Tibet. In his too-short life, he was a Tibetan Buddhist monk, a Thai Theravada Buddhist monk, translator for the Dalai Lama in Thailand, assistant professor of Tibetan studies at the University of Hawaii, …
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When my bamboo flute’s / Sound was deep
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When my father left his body / I inherited a wooden cup
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Since I lost the hiking trail / I sat under a virgin spruce tree
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Now the wish of a poor poet / Is fulfilled
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Homer – the land gifted / With boundless natural beauty
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Yes, Alaskans, we’ve driven enough plastic vehicles, / Yet they failed to take us to the Virgin Mother Land.
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The wish of my Amala / Was for me to become / A Buddhist monk
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Denali – the mountain endowed / With beauty and charms
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Wandering in the woods / Inhaling the tranquillity / Of nature
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Morning / The blue Dharmakaya / Noon
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