噶奇美多傑仁波切是瑪瑟家族在瑪南的第三代，2019 年由怙主直貢澈贊法王委任主持這個閉關園區。 他談瑪南時，第一個入口是「連結」。
GarTul Chimi Dorjee Rinpoche, the third generation of the Mase family in Manang, was appointed to lead this retreat campus by His Holiness the Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche in 2019. When he speaks about Manang, the first doorway is connection.
人可以透過歷史連結，透過傳承連結，也可以透過一代又一代留下來的加持連結。
People can connect through history, through lineage, and through blessings carried across generations.
在他的敘述裡，這份傳承經過漫長時間，進入家族，像一份遺產一樣被承接下來。
In his account, this inheritance eventually came into the family like a heritage.
但這個故事真正重要的地方，並不是家族可以追溯多遠，也不是誰擁有什麼身分。
But the important question is not how far the family can be traced, or what titles belonged to whom.
仁波切反而一再把注意力拉回那些人的生活。
Rinpoche repeatedly brings attention back to how those people lived.
他說，他們不是很在意告訴別人「我是誰、我是什麼」，也不是靠要求別人給予尊敬來建立自己的位置。
They were not especially interested in announcing, “I am this” or “I am that,” or asking others to give them recognition.
尊敬，是從他們自己的存在、工作與修持裡慢慢形成的。
Respect was earned through presence, pure work, and practice.
佛法曾經就活在生活裡
Dharma lived inside ordinary life
這也是仁波切談歷史時最重要的一個轉折。
This is one of the most important turns in Rinpoche's story.
佛法並不只屬於僧院或出家人。它屬於所有人。
Dharma does not belong only to monks or monasteries. It belongs to all.
一個人仍然有家庭、有財產、有工作，也仍然生活在日常所有複雜與混亂之中。
A person can still have family, property, work, and the full complexity of ordinary life.
修行不是等這些事情消失之後才開始。它就在這樣的生活裡。
Practice does not begin only after those things disappear. It happens within them.
因此，瑪南要保存的不是一個被抽離生活的宗教過去，而是一種「修行與生活沒有完全分開」的可能。
What Manang carries, then, is not a religious past separated from life, but the possibility that practice and life do not have to be divided.