Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

My Little Buddhing Buddhist — Reposted/Updated


So read the subject line of a recent, hilarious email from best bud Sarah. With her permission, I share it with you verbatim, to lighten your weekend a bit. What? It???s not the weekend yet where you are? You gotta get on the right side of the International Date Line, man! The anecdote Sarah sent ...>

Promoting Peace and Friendship For All — Updated


Everyone says that China is concerned about its image. If that's so, certain totalitarian regimes need to hire a top-notch PR firm, stat. It's easy to see that the increased pressure applied by Communist cadres on Tibetan monks and nuns to do what is directly counter to their teachings (denoun ...>

Vince Lombardi, Eat Your Heart Out


Now this is a pep talk, for the only game really worth playing. My teacher, Jetsunma Ahk??n Lhamo, was so pleased by the event of sending the nine young Mongolian women for Buddhist study in India (see previous post), and felt moved to write the following, which she has allowed me to share with you ...>

Exquisite Bouquet


Here’s a measure of just how good I feel today: a third of the way through making the morning brew, my coffee maker heaved a steamy gasp, and perished. “Oh well,” I thought, “I’ll just put some extra milk in the strong stuff and make another cup later in my little camping plunger. Doot do ...>

Holiness


Here's the last bit from an excellent interview in the latest Newsweek with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Some images of the recent casualties have been graphic and disturbing. Have you seen them? What was your reaction? We heard you wept. Yes, I cried once. One advantage of belonging to the ...>

Tibet: Do It Now


OK, it's not just the Chinese who have spies. I got my own, see? And they tell me that out of the 100 or so people who read the last post, exactly three bothered to click the link to send a letter to the International Olympic Committee to urge that Tibet be removed from the Olympic Torch Relay rout ...>

Chickenshit — Updated


OK, you know what I’m 100% sick of? The free hand with which militaristic regimes assault Buddhist monks and nuns. Because this is what set off the riots in Lhasa. The Tibetan laypeople couldn’t stand by and watch paramilitary cops in riot gear whale on ordained sangha yet again. No sane person ...>

Tibet: Shame on China


As might have been predicted, the outcome of the Communist Chinese suppression of the protests in Tibet was worse than feared. Reports are now putting the number of those massacred at 80-100. To me, this is a painful indicator of the value the Chinese place on Tibetan lives. With all their experie ...>

Lhasa Burning


Our hearts just now are with the Tibetan people, pushed to the breaking point by escalating repression in their homeland by the Communist Chinese occupiers. So long they have wanted the simple dignity of self-determination and religious freedom. So long the Communist Chinese have arrogantly in ...>

Six More Weeks?


The south view of overnight snow on Ulaanbaatar from my 13th floor apartment this morning. Spring ain't sprung quite yet. Better check to see if the marmot's seen its shadow. ...>

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