Matthew Caretti

Immolation

She was twenty-seven years old. From Tawu. He was just fourteen. A monk at the Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery. There have been more than 120 others.

When liberation becomes repression, desperation. Compassion and tolerance seem impossible ideals. So a radical act free of ideology. With maitri.

crimson robes
heaped by the roadside
still smoldering

Note: maitri – Sanskrit, meaning “loving-kindness.”