Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Age, Eh!


For the past couple days I’ve worn a squinched-up look of perplexity and consternation on my face, ignoring my mother’s voice in my head warning me it’ll freeze like that. Is it because of our Great Debate about impartial love? The awesome responsibility of participating in a nation’s Buddh ...>

And The Young Shall Lead Them


I deliberately stayed out of the discussion on the last post so I could enjoy and ponder your wonderful responses without swaying things one way or another. Based on that, we’ll have another round of Deep Dostoevsky Thoughts later this weekend (Oh boy, Konchog! D’ya mean it?). But for now, I w ...>

Love, Love, Is The Only Way


If any of you recognized the title as coming from the lyrics of the super-obscure yet prolific self-recording Texas primitive Jandek, aka Sterling Smith, with whom my friends and I were obsessed in college, you’ve earned my drop-jawed awe. Anyway, this is going to sound strange coming from a Bud ...>

Lama Yenta


I think I found Moojie a giiiiirlfriend! I was meeting at the Stupa Café with one Gloria, a Columbiana with the unlikely last name O'Meara, who’s recently arrived to manage FPMT’s Mongolian Community Center (soup kitchen, clinic, and, of particular interest to our project, a poor women’s se ...>

Ten Thousand Reasons to Rejoice


OK, let’s get right to today’s headline. Axel Braunlich spotted a lovely little Desert Finch earlier this week, the first record of this species in Mongolia. Most of you couldn’t care less, but the birders just squinched up their faces, pumped their fists, and went, “Aw, dude!” Such finds ...>

Paintings of the Mystic Feminine


This week my wonderfully talented friend Soyolmaa is having a solo exhibition of her collected painting work at the Xanadu Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar. I attended the opening, and she graciously allowed me to come in later to photograph her work to share with all of you. I also want to encourage UB ...>

Viva Dalai Lama


So I’ve plunged into one of the classics, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Is it widely known that Fyodor was one whale of a writer? (My friend Sarah and I just had the same thought and laffed – those of you who grew up on the east coast of the U.S. will be well-acquainted with Carvel Ice ...>

Fly! Be Free!


Oh, I hear you grumbling: “I’ve been checking in to DODR for the last two weeks, and Konchog followed a birding post, saints preserve us, with a full-throated whine, and that’s it! Right after we’d had such fun yapping about icky food. What gives? Thought he was supposed to be compassionate ...>

Friday’s Goodbye Day


Due to the alarming development of my laptop's registry and hard drive going into some kind of cardiac arrest -- it's at the clinic now -- I'm composing this at a very strange internet cafe I've discovered in the neighborhood. Each unit has huge monitors and comfy captain's chairs, but it's mostly ...>

Twite a Sight


My apologies for the thinness of the communiqués. I’ve been laid up for two days with a fever again, this time graced by a dry, persistent cough. My life has consisted of sleeping, reading, and struggling out to walk the dog – who, I think because of a pretty dramatic display of displeasure on ...>

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