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The Road to Imeus
Somewhere in the final section, at the right-hand side (the eastern end),of the Peutinger TableI no longer harbor the least regret for the time spent in my high school Latin classes. No doubt they were...
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Released! Tibskrit 2014
If you know Tibskrit already, or if you’re keeping Tibskrit 2011 on your laptop taking it with you wherever you go, this updated version is meant for you. I know I promised it would pass the 1,000,000...
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Flip-flops so to Speak
— Today's blog entry is dedicated to frustrated dissertation writers everywhere.I’m not sure if the Google-bots aren’t going to build a huge firewall around Tibeto-logic after they’ve finished...
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Couples Constantly Facing Off
Light side and Dark side of the mountainmodern གཏན་ཞལ་ > སྟངས་ཞལ་ > ancient སྟངས་དབྱལ་?This བློག་ is for Dorji over at Philologia Tibetica. We share an incurable disorder known as Logophilia,...
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In Praise of Beer
We’ve mentioned Lama Pagpa (འཕགས་པ་) at least once in an earlier blog, on account of his successful lobbying effort with Qubilai Khan to end the culling (“weeding”) of the Chinese peasantry. Unwanted...
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Name Dropping, It Happens
Drive carefully, unidentified llama aheadI apologize for those last couple of blogs about trivial matters you probably know enough about already. You know, like the one last month encouraging the...
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Doublethinking? Think Again.
Tibeto-logic, along with all of Blogspot, is inaccessible in the People’s Republic of China, that is, to the people there. That means if you’re there you can’t get here. Even Apple since last year has...
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Regalia Untranslatable - Part One
“Time is short, the aspects of learning so many, there is simply no telling how long life will last.So, like the duck extracting milk out of water,what you treasure most is the thing you must do.”**The...
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Regalia Untranslatable - Part Two
The Nine Royal Heirlooms, which is to say the Tibetan Imperial Regalia.By way of introduction: In today’s blog, Part Two of a three-part series that began with Part One, I intend to say a little bit...
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Regalia Untranslatable - Part Three
To start at the beginning, go here.Look back at the frontispiece of Part Two, the first-listed of the nine regalia, the གསེར་ཁྲི་ཆུ་དར་ཅན་, “golden throne with/having chu-dar” — that term chu-dar that...
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More Questions of Regalia
This list was already posted here. To start at the beginning, go here.Here we are, back with those nine regalia passed down in the Tibetan imperial line, couched in terms that are mostly very difficult...
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A Hard Concept
Tsongge José said, “Oh Dampa, Delusion must have a very good foundation stone. No sooner do you think it’s dissolved but it proves itself invincible.” Dampa was delighted to hear this, “Nothing could...
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The Emperor's Beer Jug
Quoted from the Dutch painter Jan Havickszoon Steen (1626-1679 CE)I just noticed an interesting thing in a drawing I had looked at very many times over the years. I was following up on a reference from...
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Turkish & Mongolian Loanwords
The Tibetan words here are, to transcribe them into Wylie, in order: sku-bde-rigs, gang-zag, chol-kha, 'jam, thu-lum, na-so, no-kar, pag-shi, beg-tse, sbe-ka, tshan, she-mong, hor-dud, and am-chi. I...
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Marvelous Man-Lifting Kites (& Giants in Caves)
Topkapi Palace, IstanbulSeveral years ago I joined a Yahoo discussion group devoted to the teachings of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa (1910‑1981). It was not just a whim, I was more than a little curious and...
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Newsweek’s Photo Fact-Check Fail
This is not, we repeat, NOT, His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaDiscovering a major news magazine’s huge mistake ought to be an opportunity for gloating. In this case none of that gloating would be mine,...
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Sheep Year Happy Losar!
Although a special blog for the holiday was in the works, this auspicious picture is offered in its place. Have a great new year with good health, plentiful energy, enough wealth, much contentment and...
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Reading at a Slow Pace
Take it easy, partners, and slowly move your hand away from the holster. This is not supposed to be anything like a critical book review. I gave up doing those a long time ago. I just had the idea to...
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Finding Phadampa in Bhutan
I wouldn’t recommend that anyone go to Bhutan without first factoring it into their annual budget. It’s pricey to go under a tourist visa, and difficult to get any other kind. I would have gone there...
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The Birthday Party of the Year
For the video, look HERE."One day you will be dancing and singing in Tibet, your home country."— Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at a party honoring the 80th year of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The...
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