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	Andy's India Trips
	Starting in the winter of 2004-2005 I have traveled to India on three occasions to teach physics to Tibetan Buddhist Monks at the Science Workshop for Monks. These have been wonderful experiences and I feel very lucky to teach physics to a very different group of learners. The science workshop was intiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama based on the twin ideas that Buddhism has much to offer the western world, and western science has much to offer Tibetan Buddhists. It is conducted with the generous support of the Sager Family Foundation.
	In 2004-2005 the workshop was held at the Tibetan Math and Science Magnet School near Selaquy (actually close to Dehradun). This is in northern India, a half day train ride north of Delhi. I traveled there with Dewey Dykstra and we taught the physics of image formation by lenses. Pictures from the 2005 workshop.
	The 2005-2006 workshop also took place at the same school. I returned with Dewey Dykstra and Hunter Close to teach color addition and heat and temperature. Pictures from the 2006 workshop.
	The 2006-2007 workshop was held at the Sera monastery near Kushalnagar, Karnataka state in southern India. Mel Sabella and I taught about magnetism. The monks in attendance developed a model similar to the magnetic domain model of ferromagnetic materials. I have a bunch of pictures which I hope to put online "someday". Andy Return to Andy's page