Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Qoality Time


A couple of statistics from Phillip Island: Number of people who attended Brother Konchog’s Mongolia presentation Saturday afternoon: 3 Number of people who attended the Penguin Parade that evening: 1000+ Number of Little Penguins that scrambled out of the sea to their sand dune nesting burro ...>

Completely Bats


OK, first of all, click on over to Tulku Urgyan Tenpa’s Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar to enjoy a short (3 min.), excellent video montage from the Festival of 1000 Lights and Flowers celebrated for Losar at our Amitabha Stupa site in Sedona, AZ. It's amazing to think that some of the young people ...>

Why Dee Why?


Well, Happy Tsagaan Sar, y’all! I’m observing Mongolian New Year with nary a Mongol in sight, in contrast to previous years. But today Ani Tenzin and I did hang with Tibetans (for whose Losar celebrations I offer a hearty “Tashi Delek!”) in a Sydney ‘burb mysteriously named Dee Why (theor ...>

Canberra, On The Fly


I'm on the fly getting ready to leave Canberra for Sydney, but since Canberra was a blast (a statement that may raise some Aussie eyebrows) I just have time to show you a few pix. After a nicely-attended talk at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (and an inte ...>

More on the Tour


(Hmm...have to pronounce that title carefully or it could be construed "Moron: The Tour") Anyway, just a schedule update for the Great Australia Tour, since I've inadvertently left the wrong date and no venue for Sydney to the right there. This Saturday, Feb. 2, a date famous for groundhogs and my ...>

Om Gobble Gobble Ah Hung


Before I left for Australia, I signed up for an email list called Birding-AUS. As you might guess, it’s a forum in which members (sometimes endlessly) discuss the minutiae of Australian birds and bird-related topics. Even a card-carrying fanatic like me will most often delete the messages wholesa ...>

Camp Granada


Back a couple days now from a week in the region north of Brisbane known as the Sunshine Coast. The name puzzled me, as for the first five days I saw neither sunshine nor a coast. In fact, during the first days the tropical rain showers were so relentless (Eastern Australia's having a massively wet ...>

Guest Message


Tulku Urgyan Tenpa Rinpoche has put up a post on his blog about our Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, AZ entitled "America's Stupas: Believe in Yourselves." He has asked friends of his to replicate it on their blogs to share with their readers. Here it is, then, verbatim: "Four years ago, Jetsunma Ak ...>

Dawn Passage


Just received the news that our beloved monk Yeshe Nyonpa, who had defied life's odds for so long, finally shed his old, worn-out body at dawn this morning (you can read my very premature eulogy here). There's no need to be sad. His long-suffering years of coping with cancer have ended, and ...>

Alice Aforethought


Very exciting news on the wires last night. I've been invited to Alice Springs! This is really where it all began in Australia as far as students coalescing around Jetsunma, and where many of my best Australian friends reside. I'll be there Feb. 18-22. The trip will include a pilgrimage to th ...>

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