Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

‘Roo de Oiseaux


I just found this pic on my camera’s memory card. It serves as quite the accurate “before photo,” summing up my mental state as I prepare to assault my hapless birfday cake to relieve the tedium and frustration of being in Mongolian pneumonic quarantine: Actually, the cake was quite tas ...>

Tulku Urgyan Tenpa


News comes that Tulku Urgyan Tenpa has required emergency hospitalization. Not sure of the details, but it doesn't matter. He has been very kind to our Mongolia Project and to me personally and I ask that those of you who are so inclined please include him in your healing prayers. To inspire y ...>

We Are All Fine


Among other subjects, the ten young men from Mongolia we have sent to study Buddhism in India have also been learning English. One of them, who now goes by the Tibetan name of Minjuur Dechen Sherab, developed enough confidence in his English chops to start emailing me. Here's his latest: "Dear Kon ...>

Aus-some


Just a quickie to say that I landed safely in Brisbane at dawn this morning and, though having endured a bit of unpleasantness with Australia's extremely vigilant, strict and intractable customs/quarantine agents (note to y'all: if you travel here, don't succumb to a sleepless stupor and space out ...>

Hot, Strong Coughing


Why? Why can I connect to Dr. Dick’s Dub Shack, empirically the most ferociously fabulous internet radio broadcast ever, here in Korea and not in Mongolia? Why, for that matter, can’t I get some kind of hyper-tech thingy surgically implanted into my medulla oblongata or thereabouts and have it ...>

Pneumonic Convergence


Well. What a nice, big lump of coal (kind of literally, considering the air I’ve been breathing) Santa left in my stocking this year. In one way. In another way, this little bout of pneumonia, now well on the mend (thanks for all your well wishes in the comments), has taught me great lessons reg ...>

Down for the Count


Wednesday night my nagging cough took a violent turn for the worse, folding in high fever and vomiting, and just flatline in the energy department, almost unconscious. X-rays today reveal that Brother Konchog has contracted acute pneumonia in his left lung, so I'll put myself in hospital (first tim ...>

Christmas in Mongolia


Yes, I was singing the post title to myself yesterday (which would have been written "today" had the Mongolian ISP's I had the misfortune to connect to not felt it was their right to arbitrarily take chunks of the day off) to the tune of the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia" but that's neither h ...>

Gimme Shelter


Well, my stuff has a new home, and Mooj and Nita have a new home, but Brother Konchog is still a badarchin (Mongolian for itinerant lama) due to persistent water problems, such as its tendency to freeze solid on Mongolian winter nights, and days for that matter. Everyone swears this will be resolve ...>

Glad Tidings


It’s the morning of the shortest day of the year here in Ulaanbaatar, where a haze-shrouded sun heaved itself off the horizon at 8:38AM and will collapse back at 5:01PM (this precise information courtesy of the ever-amazing Weather Underground). The ferocious mix of airborne toxicity here in the ...>

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