Foggy Yoeling (Weling), Trongsa

Histories are enthralling yet many legends are getting mystefied among the complexity of scientific truth and turmoil. While the knowledge base of society is rapidly shifting towards scientific data, histories and their stories are worth recoding before being entirey regarded obsolute and discarded. Here is one such story for record. 

The founding Lama, Drubthop Ngawang Samten of TaPhag Goenpa ༼རྟ་ཕག་དགོན་པ་༽ was rearing horeses for riding and for trasnportation of goods to his monsatery. The use of horses, however, are subject to the requirement which happened only couple of times a year. The Lama had no horseman to man his horses and they were left to graze freely in the open meadows around and below the monastery. 

While this continued for many years, it so happened that horses roamed too far into the wheat fields of Yoeling (Weling) village and helped themslves with the wheats in unguarded fileds. After sometime, it became too frequent and intolarable nueasense to the villagers since their wheat fields are getting excssively destroyed and their effort to guard the fields are turning futile. The villagers had to find a permanent solution and decided to take up the matter with Lama for discussion. 

The matter was taken to Lama by villagers for peaceful resolution so that communal harmony and symbiotic relation betwen them can be maintained. They approached the Lama and discussed the matter too much to which Lama agreed that he shall not let his horse(s) roam freely in their wheat fields and villagers were happy. However, the situation was such that Lama cannot herd the horses by himself nor could he deploy his desciples for the job because they were all serious practionars who had better business than manning the horses. Neither finding a horseman nor dis-owning the horses was the good solution for Lama. He was thus complelled to find better solution.

Lushy wheat fileds of Yoeling/Willing, Trongsa.

After a thoughtful consideration, an idea struck Lama's mind. It was an idea that marvelled the witnesses and changed the overall weather condition of Yoeling village. It was exhibition of Lama's level of realizaton and achievement which became significant part of the oral history that was retold through the generations. 

It is said that, Lama, being learned and accomplished master could instruct all forms of lives and change worldly phenonemon at his desire should the need arise. 

The need arosed and he changed the weather of Yoeling and all its premises to foggy condition so that villgers won't to able to spot his horse(s) in their wheat field even if they run astry. As a result it avoided conflict between the Yolingpas and the Lama. From that instance,even if horses roamed and ate the wheat of Yoellips, they were neither able to spot nor identify the horses of Lama. 

Even to this day, it is believed that weather of Yoelling village continued to be usually foggy from that particular incident. 

No matter whether the foggyness of Yoeling is due to that incidence or not,  it doesn't even matter whether that incident happened or not, the bottom line is that stories are worth narrating to the ears that endear the values and tradition of story telling.

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