Dear Grasshopper, life sometimes provides very simple answers.
Chgo = Chicago
gal = gal
I take it, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Tibet are the areas that influence you more than Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos?
ROTFLMAO!
Change the spelling to Chogyal, do a search on that, and you’ll see why I made my mistake, Master Po. ;-)
Yes, I practice one of the Tibetan traditions of Buddhism. Most of the teachers I have met and taken teachings from were from the Amdo region of eastern Tibet, forced out by the Chinese.