your bridge home
True Valor
Eight centuries of continuous scholarship, students and teachers drawn from across Asia, ended within days when the campaign finally reached it, and the community that gave its library meaning did not survive to rebuild it.
Forty years after the army came through, a Tibetan pilgrim walked into the ruins. He found a man of ninety still teaching grammar to seventy students.
What it was
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.