Author Archives for Konchog Norbu

Brother Konchog’s Australia Invasion


So a short while ago I got a preliminary itinerary from the organizers of my Australia tour that provoked no small alarm on my part. It was created on a calendar grid program, used to log daily appointments. From my arrival on January 5 and for the next two weeks, it read, “6:00AM: Bris.” I rea ...>

Movin’ On UuuuUp


Well, not to the East Side, but certainly to a dee-luxe apartment in the sky. A certain friend of mine is a builder and, despite knowing me well, still retains a shred of faith in the idea of me as a Buddhist monk. Thus, some time ago she offered me a couple of rooms at the very tippy-top of her d ...>

Nature of the Dakini


About halfway into my Dakini Valley visit, a huge upwelling of moisture lifted out of the Pacific and blew into the Southwest. Gusty rains drenched the area with 4-5” in 36 hours; up to that point only about 7” of rain had fallen in all of 2007. It was a glorious blessing for this desiccated la ...>

Animal Ranch


Well, my unexpected global ramble has come to a temporary halt and I’m still amazed by the internet as a transcontinental connecting tool. I flew from Phoenix north where I enjoyed a 90-minute nosh with DODR commenter Carol of Seattle at Sea-Tac; then on to Seoul where DODR commenter Christian an ...>

The Monks in the Hall


So many stories and pictures to share from Dakini Valley after I sort through and polish them all. A spectacular retreat culminated in an astonishingly profound ceremony and teaching with Jetsunma yesterday, after which I left for Sedona. This is not exactly a hardship. Here's the view of Thunder M ...>

With Tara and Her Babies


Outside the window where I’m typing it’s heavily overcast with periodic showers intensifying to a steady soaking forecast to last all night with flash flooding possible. So where did Konchog wind up? Washington’s Olympic Peninsula? The Outer Hebrides? Some dank, steel-grey port town on the no ...>

Bless My Seoul


My current peregrinations, made possible by a kind donation from one of my community members of massive frequent flyer miles, entailed a generally unwanted day and a half transit in Seoul. This stop, however, turned into a pleasure on so many levels. Not least of these was the delight in meeting a ...>

Hop To It!


Just back from Darisuren’s house/temple where about 20 of us performed a tsok food offering ceremony on this 10th day of the moon, which is sacred to Padmasambhava. I snapped a nice shot of Minjimaa, our able chöpon (ritual attendant – altar girl, if you wish): Sunday was Minjimaa’s 15 ...>

Weekend Sing-a-Long


Well, it's getting to be that time in Mongolian, um, autumn (well it is) when at your nighttime jaunts outside, like mine just now to join friends at the local pizza joint, result in your face flash freezing (say that ten times fast). Right now it's six. Below. Farenheit. But Brother Konchog will s ...>

Rains, It Pours


I'm sorry to shift the tone so abruptly again, but several friends called me last night, distressed by a tragedy that has struck here in Mongolia involving two nearly simultaneous, serious car accidents, and pleading for our prayers. The first accident claimed two lives, those of Member of Parlia ...>

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