January came and went this year with no sign of the Tibetan Buddhist monks who have visited Nevada County for 11 of the last more than a dozen years. But that doesn’t mean the some of the Gaden Shartse Monastery monks exiled in south India won’t be here at all in 2013, said Joseph Guida, executive director of St. Joseph’s Cultural Center and cofounder of Sierra Friends of Tibet. “It’s thought they may arrive in June or July,” Guida said. “As soon as we get the visas, they will come here.” Over the last 12 years, delegations of monks have …












