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Wish I Were There


Today, September 10 (well, yesterday in Mongolia, but anyway), is the day for the Annual Prayer Festival at the sacred Shambhala site of Khamar Monastery in the East Gobi. It’s there, I’m here, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ] ...>

Mongol Visitation Rites


Seems this was Mongolian Visitation Week at KPC, much to my delight. At last week’s BBQ for newly-arrived Ambassador Bekhbat, the Mongolian Embassy’s Consul General, Mr. Ganbold (center), and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Monkey Chow


Sister Philippa, authoress and photographress at Feisty Blue Gecko, writes in from her and hubby Jigme's posting in Sri Lanka with the following local pic... ...and the suggested caption: “No, you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Flying Flock


Back in the year 2000, Brother Konchog hit a wee speed bump on his path. My teacher yanked me out to Arizona and plopped me in our remote retreat center called Dakini Valley for Reeducation Through... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Article of Faith


My friend Michael Kohn, who writes the Mongolia guidebooks for Lonely Planet and for whom I did some editing work on his volume about Danzan Ravjaa, Lama of the Gobi, has just published an article in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

I Got a T.V. Eye on You


Via Brother Don Croner, I see that Glenn Mullin has produced and posted a 10-minute video on YouTube from a tour he led this past July to Khamariin Khiid and its sacred Shambhala site that we’ve... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

U, I Know!


OK, while I do appreciate at least a public statement yesterday from the Bushes about Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution, this image is just too good to pass up and I now declare open a DODR Kaption... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Granted


Big news, y’all. I’ve been sitting on it all week, but now it’s ready to, um, hatch. Mongolian Buddhism was suppressed and its practice declared illegal under Soviet-style Communism for about 70... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Leavin’ On A Jet Plane


This is a late announcement, because I wasn’t exactly sure until yesterday how the flow of things was going to...flow. But about this time tomorrow I’ll be clambering aboard a plane heading west. Way... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...>

Devotees of the Nut Cutlet


Well, once again in a lax moment the Mongolian authorities let me slip back into the motherland. Brother Palzang was correct; our flight path took us right over the North Pole, probably too high to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

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