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World | Melanie | Brand New Key
The singer-songwriter Melanie has transmigrated at the age of 76. Who could ever forget her song “Brand New Key”? Curiously, back in 1971 this song was banned on some radio stations. The words were...
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Mongolia | False Lama of Mongolia: The Life and Death of Dambijantsan
Who was Dambijantsan?A Buddhist monk; a freedom fighter for Mongolian independence; the descendant of Amursanaa (1723–1757), the Western Mongol who led the last great uprising against the Qing Dynasty...
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Iran | Tabriz | Covered Bazaar | Tea
Wandered by Tabriz, a city of some 1.7 million souls—the fifth largest city in Iran. In 1655 the legendary Turkish gadabout Evliya Çelebi ((1611–1682; his mammoth Book of Travels—ten volumes, only...
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Tibet | Great Stupa of Jonang | Dölpopa
The Jonang Stupa today I recently added The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen to the Scriptorium and have just finished reading it. The...
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Mongolia | Wanders in the Khentii Mountains | Onon Hot Springs
I have visited the Onon Hot Spring in the upper Onon Valley three times: once while on my first trip into the Khentiis in 1997; once while doing the Khora around the Burkhan Khamag of the Khamag...
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Mongolia | Wanders in the Khentii Mountains of Mongolia | The Source of the...
The Amur River is, according to most sources, the tenth-longest river in the world. The Amur flows into the Strait of Tartary, which separates Sakhalin Island from mainland Asia. The Strait of Tartary...
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Mongolia | Wanders in the Khentii Mountains of Mongolia | Saridag Khiid and...
While browsing in a bookstore in Ulaanbaatar I came across a short biography of Zanabazar (1635-1723), the First Bogd Gegeen of Mongolia, written by a Mongolian historian. Nowadays Zanabazar is perhaps...
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Tibet | Great Stupa of Jonang | Dölpopa
The Jonang Stupa today I recently added The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen to the Scriptorium and have just finished reading it. The...
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Greece | Old Corinth
Wandered over to Corinth, forty-five miles east of Athens but slightly longer by train. Corinth is located on the west side of the 3.5 mile wide isthmus that separates the Peloponnese Peninsula from...
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Greece | Old Corinth
Wandered over to Corinth, forty-five miles east of Athens but slightly longer by train. Corinth is located on the west side of the 3.5 mile wide isthmus that separates the Peloponnese Peninsula from...
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Tibet | Great Stupa of Jonang | Dölpopa
The Jonang Stupa todayI recently added The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen to the Scriptorium and have just finished reading it. The...
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Mongolia | Khentii Mountains | Saridag Khiid and Yestiin Hot Springs
While browsing in a bookstore in Ulaanbaatar I came across a short biography of Zanabazar (1635-1723), the First Bogd Gegeen of Mongolia, written by a Mongolian historian. Nowadays Zanabazar is perhaps...
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Zanabazar | First Bogd Gegeen of Mongolia
Zanabazar (1635–1723) was, according to most reckonings, the sixteenth incarnation of Javsandamba. The first incarnation is believed to have appeared around the time of the Buddha. As a small boy he...
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Italy | Venice | Palazzo Rizzi
I am back in my usual digs in Venice, an old nunnery which has been converted into a hotel. The building, once the Palazzo Rizzi, is located on the Fondamenta Rizzi, about a five minute walk from the...
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Tibet | Great Stupa of Jonang | Dölpopa
The Jonang Stupa today I recently added The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen to the Scriptorium and have just finished reading it. The...
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Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | Soyolma
New painting by Mongolian artist Soyolma (click on photos for enlargements).Soyolma in her studio. The painting behind her is now in my Zaisan Tolgoi Galleria.Soyolma’s painting in my GalleriaSoyolma...
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Mongolia | Wanders in the Khentii Mountains | Onon Hot Springs
I have visited the Onon Hot Springs in the upper Onon Valley three times: once while on my first trip into the Khentiis in 1997; once while doing the Khora around the Burkhan Khamag of the Khamag...
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Mongolia | Khentii Aimag | Burkhan Khaldun Khora
Eight thousand and forty-foot-high Burkhan Khaldun in the Khentii Mountains is one of the most sacred mountains in Mongolia. It is mentioned several times in the Secret History of the Mongols, a...
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