Saturday, October 25, 2008

The healing waters of bhutan

I brought home this label, from our mineral water bottle in bhutan... it is completely in accord with the tremendous respect bhutan people maintain for their kings... their saint .... their springs. it reminds me of many stops along a bhutanese highway at sacred springs, us tourists admiring waterfalls, our bhutanese friends eagerly imbibing blessings from the holy water of life from a simple pipe by the road.

"Kurje Drubcha is pure spring water believed to have been extracted out of a rock by Guru Rinpoche, the saint who brought Buddhism to Bhutan in the 8th century,to cure King Sindhu Raja from a terrible disease. Endowed with eight qualities of a holy medicinal water, this water has potent healing power for various physical and mental problems. It is processed according to strict hygienic principles. As the water has higher spiritual significance than an ordinary mineral water, we request everyone to treat this product with respect...."

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