Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Samsara in my Crosshairs


Was gearing up to offer some funny, but I've been brooding over the news that yet another friend my age has suddenly died. He was the main publisher of Buddhist books here in Ulaanbaatar. He fell sick in the fall and was radically misdiagnosed by his Mongol doctors. I saw him in that period and he l ...>

Please, James Brown, Take Rebirth in Mongolia


Saturday night I was invited to a snazzy New Year’s party at the Mongolian Cultural Palace as the guest of Erka’s company, and I pondered the evolution of my karma. For ten years I was in VIP catering in DC and I would ordinarily be working a party like this. Holidays, for me, only meant extra l ...>

Ruinous


Update 3: Riverbend from Baghdad considers what she calls Saddam's "lynching" -- it ain't pretty. Update 2: Wow. Radigan has just excerpted an utterly fascinating piece by Jack Weatherford (author of the seminal Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World) that was published in the L.A. Times ...>

To Suffer All Things is the Way of Our Land


Earlier this year I had heard rumors that a British gent had been hard at work translating Danzan Ravjaa’s poems. I was guardedly hopeful; the translations I’d read in Lama of the Gobi left quite a bit to be desired. Then one day I visited Hamid Sardar and there on his desk was a thick book ca ...>

If Mongolia Had Milk Duds


Being a Buddhist monk, you can probably imagine that I’m emphatically opposed to capital punishment. This conviction, however, was sorely tested last night. I suspect that I, and most of Ulaanbaatar’s right-thinking citizenry, would not exactly leap up to intervene if a certain public official ...>

Early Gift


One of the most touching developments in the evolution of the Dulaan Project to knit warm goodies for Mongolia was the entry of one Mary Lee. She is a pediatric occupational therapist who decided to engage her learning disabled children in making things for Mongolian children. I marveled at Mary Le ...>

Padmasambhava’s Powerful Prayer


Cross-posted to the new Prayer Without Ceasing blog. Many of you know that as a component of KPC’s Mongolian Buddhism Revival Project (MBRP -- site to be updated very soon!), I have been offering foundational Buddhist teachings to a small group every week in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar ...>

Happy First Month of Winter Festivus!


In the previous post on Ulaanbaatar Christmas-ness, I found it amusing that I had commenters named Minnie and Pixie. It was like having my own elves! Especially since it’s more and more like the North Pole around here. This is the latest shot of my courtyard flower box: Oh, and responding t ...>

Deck Us All


I’m in fine fettle this evening, in a holiday spirit if you will. Had an excellent teaching session with the small group at Mandal Tov (which, as my sister points out, sounds a lot like Mazel Tov), followed by a delicious lunch with my translator Gunji. Afterward, I enjoyed long-delayed success i ...>

Bao Amazing!


Update: Just thought of the title I should have used: Bao Wow! Luke, I don't care if he's "ethnically Chinese." Bao Xishun is the world's tallest man, he's a herder in Inner Mongolia, which makes him an honorary soul brother, and he saved two dolphins by reaching his ginormous arms into their gull ...>

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