Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Labor Pleasures


Lots of stuff to tell you about/show you, but since it's Labor Day Weekend for my fellow Americans, I'll wait until Tuesday to lay it all on you. It seems the commemorations are a little similar here in Mongolia. Last night Erka told me she would be busy all weekend, because it's "Constructor's Day ...>

Nice Ovoos!


Our little botany excursion in the last post was fun, no? The detective work (finding cool sites like this one) seems to hit similar pleasure zones for me as birding. Except, of course, the plants generally sit still. But, as an unreformed language geek, the most entertaining part was reading the L ...>

The Gobi Expands Its Palette


I don’t think I’ve ever said otherwise, but this past weekend trip to the Eastern Gobi was really fantastic, for several unique reasons. One of these I’ll relate to you here, mostly in pictures. It concerns that most precious and rare element in the relentlessly arid desert – moisture. Si ...>

Potpourri


OK, mark it down. August 23. The first day I had to don a sweatshirt and toss a blanket on my bed. Autumn's in the air in Ulaanbaatar. Leaving for a weekend Gobi trip in the morning, but I wanted to take a sec to share a few odds 'n' ends with y'all. For instance, this comic that occasional DODR c ...>

Ger to be Different


Woke up this morning to discover that overnight somebody, for some reason, erected a ger on the corner of my courtyard's basketball court (try saying "courtyard court corner" ten times fast). Now maybe that's just remarkably bold squatting, or maybe, as I'm more inclined to believe, it's an advance ...>

It’s a Wild World


Last week was wrapping up extra-dull, man, then wham! At a chance luncheon with Don Croner I'm introduced to his friend Sema, Turkish by origin but a world-walker now. She regales us with tales of travels in the 'stans, living among the peculiar Central Asian gypsy tribes (Luli, Mugat, and Juli) re ...>

Brushes With Greatness


So I met this cool young guy named Matthew who's a Buddhist Studies grad student at the University of Toronto. We chatted a while at FPMT's Stupa Cafe. I learned he'd been a dharma student since he was 15, even running a center for his lama, Zasep Rinpoche. At one point he paused and said, "Hey -- d ...>

No Accounting


Hokay, I’ve been puzzling over why no one wants to discuss their reactions to Jetsunma’s new music. So here’s my theory, that I have, which is mine...aaaaa-hem (Anne Elk Monty Python sketch reference for the culturally impaired): yer all a bunch of wheezin’ geezers with atrociously outdated ...>

Horse Sense


So. Which hip outfit is first out of the gate with some impressions of Jetsunma's just-released Revolution of Compassion CD? Why, The Worst Horse, of course, of course. Bless their elongated nose! I have to be honest. I love my lama, but I haven't always loved all of her musical output in the ...>

Jabbing the Dragon


The preposterous, bitterly laughable irony of this, gave way yesterday to a ray of hope when I read about the courage of this and then discovered this. I was wondering when someone was going to stick a big ol' burr under that saddle. Hope they keep it up all year. In other hopeful news, I've discov ...>

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