Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Jerry Falwell’s Next Rebirth & Other Paeons To Life


What a week. Just as I’m processing Tsenguun’s passing, I get back-to-back emails telling me one sister’s beloved family dog, Beenie, went to what she called “The Big Buffer Zone in the Sky” and my other sister’s equally beloved and ancient family cat, Fritz, finished up life #9. Yes, F ...>

Enough is Enough


Been a wild week, the karma set on warp speed at this point. Every day is rushrushrush to cross items off endless lists, hindered by the lack of a functional computer (should be fixed today, inshallah). People sometimes say to me something like, “Oh, I envy you. The life of a monk must be so simp ...>

Even More Urgent


My email this morning was filled with messages about Tsenguun, the young Mongolian man struggling with cancer in America. The messages contained the heart-rending news that he's in hospice, and he's dying. Please help send him gently on his way to an auspicious rebirth (for you Buddhists, prayers t ...>

Prayer Request


Back from a lightning trip to the Gobi and my computer and I are at odds, i.e. I want it to work and it refuses. Glad my cats aren't parrots and able to repeat the decidedly unmonkly epithets I've hurled at it. So, while I wait on the techno-witchdoctor to shake his rattles over it, I've got a fav ...>

Happy is a Strange Word If You Think About It


Brother Konchog's happiness index has been heavily weighted toward "happy" this week, as opposed to "un". How come? Glad you asked. 1. Going to the Gobi in an hour! (Surprise!) Very quick trip with two Americans, one Bhutanese, one Irishman, and my favorite Mongolian lama, Sansarbat. Back Sat. AM ...>

Fine Heart


A short while ago, I posted about my artist friend Soyolmaa’s first solo exhibition. I found myself really moved by the shift her work took once she deeply embraced the life of a Buddhist practitioner. Her art seemed to make a quantum leap in two directions at once: the traditional rendering of B ...>

My Own Lying Eyes


My teacher often draws the comparison between ignorant sentient beings (all of us, sorry) to drunks (some of us). Having been both, I see the truth of this in frequent episodes that would be hilarious if they happened to, you know, someone other than me. As Buddhists, we’re trained to notice th ...>

Konchog Kovered in Kitties


I know I haven’t written. I know. (see first part of previous post – which, by the way, had a really good triple pun in the title acknowledged by no one save my one true friend Sarah in a private email – hmmph) Know why? I’ve had nothing to write. Oh, there’s plenty going on – lining up ...>

Ganachakra Khan


So the eldest son Dmitry is getting interrogated regarding the recent murder of Papa Karamazov, and deep into it we read the following that, you might be surprised to learn, made me laugh right out loud: “He sat down in the same chair that he had occupied before. He now had a strong feeling that ...>

La Hermanita y sus Feromonas


As the title (quite obscurely) suggests, we will have the story, and photos, of our new kitty’s arrival in a moment. But first, a plug. This morning I was invited to the opening of a marvelous exhibit at Ulaanbaatar’s National History Museum that will be on display but briefly. It seems one Ba ...>

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