Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

DC Events


Been a big slacker in the promotion department. Let us take up the slack forthwith. "The Rise of Mongolian Buddhism and the Role of the West" This is the title of a talk and slide show I'll be giving at KPC Maryland this Sunday, June 24, at 11am. I hear I'm doing same in Olympia, Washington next ...>

Birthday Girl


One of the main reasons Brother Konchog planned to return to these American shores just now was to be present to fete his mother on the grand occasion of her 80th birthday. She reached and passed this august milestone yesterday amidst feasting and gifts proffered from near and far, and it is here t ...>

Gifts


OK, I know DODR has been neglected terribly just as we’ve launched on a big adventure. Lemme wield the feather duster a bit, clear out the cobwebs…there. Much better, don’t you think? Though there’s sometimes little evidence from your side, I actually think about the blog all the time, lik ...>

Bless My Seoul


At Incheon Airport and cursing the fact that this computer has no photo processing software. Coulda done it on my laptop but now it's an (immaculately clean!) mile away. Stay tuned. Got the midnight flight from Ulaanbaatar with Darisuren and Enkhtsetseg. At the airport saw Sean, a Peace Corps volu ...>

…over teakettle


There’s an inconvenient truth here in Mongolia just now – it’s utterly, revoltingly, bloody scorching hot. It’s been spiking above 90 for days and tomorrow it’s supposed to top out at 102! What is this, Riyadh? This coupled with a relentless wind that hurls dust onto your perspiring skin ...>

Constant Change


One recent bucolic afternoon basking on the windowsill... Ah, sweet summer lub... Sigh. I wish this moment would last forever. Thaaaat's it. A little more to the right. Your other right, you worthless hairball! Yer mama! No, yer mama! No, yer... It's funny. I can't get that Fleetwood M ...>

Pilgrimage


Our pilgrimage to Khamarin Khiid almost didn’t happen. On the morning before we were to leave, I got a call from the folks down there saying, “Oh, it’s very busy. There are no cars.” As in, no vans to get us from the train station to the ger camp, and none to get us to the monastery and sa ...>

And Then There Were Nuns


Thanks, y'all. My buns are sufficiently bruised and bootmarked. You just don't let a monk wallow for a second, do you? Well, I love you, too. That's why, even though it's late, I can't let that mopey post just sulk there while I go to the Gobi. You deserve better. So. After visiting the sewing gro ...>

Black Sunday


My tip-off should have been the ground fog creeping around the cold, crooked headstones. Or the raven suddenly cocking its head and flapping off, its fading, strangled cries echoing off the mausoleum walls. Or the hands of the strange, old grandfather clock inexplicably frozen at the stroke of midn ...>

Did Sew


OK, first of all, there's one little man in Kansas City who's in line for a major Time Out. Dearth of posting is not due to lack of material, believe me, but to the recent residence I seem to have taken up in Eternal Computer Hell. Neither all the king's horses (with their hopelessly clumsy hooves ...>

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