Finally our bus stopped in a tiny village that looked as I imagined it must have looked during the times Yuthok has lived there. The stone houses had the typical white walls of central tibet and some of them where covered with yak dung which was drying there in the sun for later use in the ovens and fireplaces. On the roofs and in between trees Prayer Flags in the bright colours of the five elements were XYZ fluttering in the light breezes which moved the barley fields like waves of liquid gold. And in this peaceful scene suddenly appeared a turquoise roof in between the houses which did not fit at all into this classic picture of a tibetan village. This was the place we were looking for and we read so often about. The name “Yuthok” actually means “turquoise roof” and came from all the turquoise gem stones the great doctor received from his patients and put on his roof. The legend says that Yuthok once helped a mountain spirit and healed it from a serious disease an therefore received a huge amount of turquoise gems from the creek nearby. In an attempt to dry them he then put them on his roof in the sun – thus resulting in his special nickname.