Author Archives for rinchengyatso

Ahhh, the Melting Pot


You learn something new every day.  It seems that there were five tribes of American Indians who owned black slaves back in the day, including the Cherokee.  A vote is being held (today, I think) to determine if the "freedmen" descended from those slaves currently included as me ...>

To the Moon, Alice!


So the semester is rolling along, and I've got a cold.  I can't speak right now, a fact my friends are having fun with.  At breakfast this morning, Ed said everyone could make fun of me and I couldn't do anything about it. I responded by showing him my fists and my best "Make my day, ...>

Monk Cookie Blog Chicken


I regularly check on the "stats" for my blog--how many people are looking at it, what entries they're looking at, and what search parameters they use that lead them to my blog.  Someone googled "Monk Cookie Blog Chicken" and found me the other day.  How odd.  Th ...>

Mt. Baldy


No, that's not my new nickname.  It's actually the name of a mountain just north of Rancho Cucamonga where my mother grew up.  In fact, if the skies were clear, you could see Mt. Baldy from my grandparents' front lawn.  I may have blogged about it briefly last fall after I moved to L ...>

A Little of This, A Little of That


It's Sunday afternoon and I've got laundry doin' in Dorm B.  I had to run out and get quarters to do it after a lunch with some friends at a vegetarian Chinese restaraunt earlier today.  Yesterday, my buddy Shakya and another friend Feng went to Hsi Lai temple to take the eight precepts.& ...>

Jamyang Gyatso


Check out this article about a monk detained in Chinese occupied Tibet sent to me courtesy of a friend: http://www.rfa.org/english/tibetan/2007/01/26/tibetan_monk/ Sorry I never got pictures up for the last post. I've been having technical difficulties. There's not much else to report at the mom ...>

Sleepy Monk-ee


It's not quite the end of week two of the semester and I'm already pooped.  I worked twenty hours from Monday through Wednesday, and I'm working another 12 hours or so between today and tomorrow on top of my classes.  It's not all bad, though.  My on-campus job is in the admissions o ...>

Viva la Resistance


I've been bad this week.  Just back from retreat and what am I doing?  I'm renting DVD's like "The Night Listener" and stuffing my face with candy while watching them.  So much for resisting the vending machine.  Actually, I haven't purchased anything from the vending ...>

Back from Retreat


I'm back from retreat as of Friday evening.  It was a wonderful experience...but more on that in a minute. I presented at a conference yesterday at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights on a Sutta from the Pali cannon.  My presentation was one of three chosen to be presented for "Dharm ...>

Last Post


This is my last post before heading into retreat tomorrow.  I'm off to do the shopping this morning, then I have a registration form to fill out for a conference the day after I return.  I'll be giving a presentation I did on the Buddha's advice to lay people at the Hsi Lai temple in Haci ...>