Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Dust Up


I was seriously disinclined to venture outdoors today as, when I glanced out the windows of my aerie around lunchtime, here’s how it looked (I did not alter this photo at all): In the spring, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Spring Semester


Seems spring has sprung here in UB. This means that tomorrow the high is predicted to be 74, while three days from now it's to be 44. All with gusty winds to blow dust up your schnoz. Thanks to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Baby You’re a Rich Man


I'd like to hear from my Mongolian readers on this one. Considering all of Mongolia's development needs, what do you think of your government, your Prime Minister no less, leading the way to raise... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Mongolian Fresh Air Fund


A fellow worker bee in the cooperative effort to support Mongolia’s Buddhist revival has kindly pointed out that certain claims I made in a recent MBRP newsletter and elsewhere concerning the nine... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...>

Tibet Protests: On-The-Scene Reports


Photo: Haroldo Castro Our photojournalist friend Haroldo again treats us to an English translation of a fascinating dispatch from Kathmandu for the Brazilian newsweekly Epoca. In covering the Tibet protests there, he discovered that one of the major movers is Ngulchu Tulku, a 29-year old recogn ...>

Can’t Spell Torture Without Torch — Updated


I was going to offer a lighter, humorous post for the weekend, but ain't nothin' funny about the bits of news I'm getting about the ongoing Chinese crackdown in Tibet. First I offer a wonderfully simple editorial cartoon from Steve Benson that I'm surprised and delighted appeared in The Arizona Rep ...>

One Mongol Voice


Well. My friend Dolgor in the the previous post's comments directs our attention to a lone Mongol, finally, who was moved to write into the English-language UB Post criticizing her countrymen for their near-total silence regarding their spiritual brothers and sisters in Tibet. They're struggling ag ...>

TSOB Rules OK!


What ho! The Communist Chinese government, in its headlong bid to completely alienate itself from the world's clear-thinking peoples, has once again amped up the rhetoric, pushing well into the red zone of High Cultural Revolution. Lessee...on at least two occasions I have received initiation into ...>

Not-So-Simple Simon


We note with admiration and applause that our young friend Simon Wickham-Smith, the intrepid British linguist who translated Danzan Ravjaa's poetry in a volume entitled Perfect Qualities, has just been awarded a grant from the prestigious PEN American Center's Translation Fund. This grant supports ...>

Of Palaces and Poo, and Kathmandu, Too


So yesterday I was in a bit of a rush and jumped into a cab to go see my translator Khishigt who???s languishing in a local clinic with a kidney stone (one part of his regimen is he has to drink three liters of beer a day! He hates it, but his roommates are pretty jealous. Y???all ever hear of that ...>