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“Launching the Endgame”


  Check out this article from The Buddhist Channel. ...>

A Case for Dharma


I went back to the mountains yesterday (Friday) after an unsuccessful attempt to get a bank statement for my student visa application, thinking  I would just return to the valley next week and stop by the bank.  However, all of the teachers from the monastery came to the valley today, so I hitche ...>

Down from the Mountains


I've just moved down from the mountain monastery where I had been staying since March, Rinchen Palryi Monastery.  I'm at a guest house for a few days until I move in with a Tibetan host family on Thursday for the summer.  The two-month intensive in modern colloquial Tibetan starts that same day a ...>

Useful Travel Information for Nepal–Scam Warning


I went out about a half hour ago to get some water and to do a bit of  khora (circumambulation of the Boudhanath Stupa).  As I reached the intersection at Pulbari Road I saw three foreign tourists about to fall for a scam.  In that area, there are women (who, interestingly, almost always speak ...>

Buddhist Temple Vandalized


  I just read a well-written piece at the Buddhist Channel about a Cambodian Buddhist temple just south of Rochester, MN that was vandalized recently.  It appears that there have been several incidents, but most recently a cross and the phrase "Jesus Saves" was painted on the temple driveway.  ...>

Defiance


  Shiho Fukada for The New York Times Via the Tricycle Editor's Blog, here's an interesting article from the New York Times about a group of Tibetan monks at a monastery in Xiahe who defied the Chinese governments' propaganda about Tibetans being happy under Chinese rule. A group of journalists ...>

Week One


Well, I've finished day four of classes in the summer intensive in Tibetan language at Rangjung Yeshe Institute.  Actually, we started last Thursday with orientation during which students in the beginning Tibetan program also had alphabet classes.  As of last Friday, I'm also living with a Tibet ...>

Week Two


The titles for this and the last post are not particularly exciting, I know.  I think my brain is at half-mast right now as the Tibetan language program here at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute is so intensive.  I'm making progress, however, particularly through my time with the language partners pro ...>

Week Three


Week three has nearly ended.  I have a quiz tomorrow, but I've been doing well on our twice-weekly quizes.  I missed half of the classes today, though, as I'm yet again dealing with a stomach ailment.  It goes with the territory here in Nepal. Last Monday a large group of us from Ran ...>

You won’t believe this


I just got this in an email from my sister: Two weeks ago outside Philadelphia, sixty-five children from a summer camp tried to go swimming at a club their camp had a contract to use. Evidently, the club didn't know the kids were largely Black.When the campers entered the pool, White parents took ...>

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