The Tibetan Buddhist monks of Seattle’s Sakya Monastery held prayer vigils for Jerry Fabrizio this week. The reclusive gold miner who practiced Tibetan Buddhism for over 40 years and helped build and maintain the monastery during the mining off-season died at his Nugget Hill mining camp Aug. 4. Autopsy results are pending. Fabrizio was 72.
Fabrizio came to Alaska from Seattle with a friend in the mid-1970s, camping on Mount McKinley for a…