title: In the Himalayan Nights
author: Anoop Chandola
description: Anoop Chandola, an American linguist-anthropologist, was raised in a priestly Brahmin family in India near the Nepal-Tibet border. Dr. Chandola, a graduate of the Universities of California-Berkeley and Chicago, has taught Indian literature, culture, and religion at S.V. Patel University, M. S. University of Baroda, University of California-Berkeley, University of Washington-Seattle, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Linguistic Society of America, and Linguistic Society of India. Dr. Chandola, now Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, lives in Tucson with his wife Sudha. He is a frequent guest lecturer on Hinduism and related religions.
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  ## Colin Thubron
  
  
  ## To a Mountain in Tibet
  
  
  ![image](Images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Map](004-mappage.html#mappage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](005-chapter01.html#chapter01)
  
  
  The sun is rising to its zenith. Silver-grey boulders lie…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](006-chapter02.html#chapter02)
  
  
  I wake up to a stormy sky and a sallow…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](007-chapter03.html#chapter03)
  
  
  Overnight the rain has cleaned the earth, blowing lightly up…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](008-chapter04.html#chapter04)
  
  
  Black crows are picking over the campsite. The dawn sky…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](009-chapter05.html#chapter05)
  
  
  From far up our path, Yangar remains in sight, and…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Six](010-chapter06.html#chapter06)
  
  
  In his monastery’s garden in Kathmandu, Tashi talked of the…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](011-chapter07.html#chapter07)
  
  
  At first light a herd of goats comes jostling and…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](012-chapter08.html#chapter08)
  
  
  In the restless night–the village dogs howlin