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What is the spark?: February 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Monday, February 20, 2012. A world of becoming. A wonderful postlude to a most intriguing book which I will be reading over and over carefully, A World of Becoming. Do you know what the world is to me? Others resent either this world or the different account of if it they embrace. What is it to you?
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The Drunken Agnostic: Interesting Links
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Dispatches from a Struggling Buddhist Studies Graduate Student. Friday, July 13, 2012. Hillary Clinton visits Laos. In an effort to strengthen ties between Washington and. Vientiane during her tour of Southeast Asia and her visit to ASEAN. The visit is part of the US Government's larger effort. Waning influence and China's interest in the region. Speaking of ASEAN, economic growth looks like it will be much more robust. Which holds promise for oil and natural gas exploration. I am an MA student at the Un...
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What is the spark?: August 2011
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Remembering: on not forgetting to forget. Seeking attention and validation from 'readers' who are really imaginary, non-entities, for how could I ever truly know who 'you' are or what you truly think, even if you show up as statistics on my blogs? In this contemporary digit...
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Reflections of Reflections: 10/01/2008 - 11/01/2008
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Thursday, October 23, 2008. These are my roomates, Pema Chodron (not the famous one. On the left, and Ngawang Sherab on the right. Pema is from Ladakh and in her first year of shedra. Ngawang is from Tibet, and in her second year. I feel lucky to have these woman as my roomates. 169; Damchoe Wongmo. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. A Year in India.
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Reflections of Reflections: 11/01/2010 - 12/01/2010
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Monday, November 01, 2010. Well, I've decided to move over to Wordpress, to find my same old blog on the new site, just click:. It is still a work in progress, so any suggestions would be appreciated. 169; Damchoe Wongmo. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Help little nuns and monks. Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Sites. Thubten Chodron's Home Page.
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Reflections of Reflections: 03/01/2010 - 04/01/2010
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Sunday, March 07, 2010. Greetings from the airport in Saskatoon. In about 36 hours I should be arriving at Namdroling Monastery, India. Other than talking myself hoarse these last few weeks, I've mostly been visiting with friends. I studied a little bit and translated a short text. There was an article about my life in the local paper. 169; Damchoe Wongmo. A Year in India.
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Reflections of Reflections: 06/01/2009 - 07/01/2009
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Tuesday, June 09, 2009. I've been meaning to post some of the funny conversations I've had. Early this morning:. ROOMATE: Ani Damchoe Wangmo! Did you drop 200 rupees (about U.S. five dollars) in the toilet? RM: Someone dropped 200 rupees in the toilet! ME: (cringing at the thought of Gandhi-ji's visage getting dirty in our toilet) Did you take it out? ME I don't think so.
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Reflections of Reflections: 12/01/2009 - 01/01/2010
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Friday, December 11, 2009. Me: (thinking a moment) "I love you, too.". Pema Chodron: "One zer na. I, four zer na. Love, three zer na. From the balcony outside) Lobsang Palmo*: Damchoe Wangmo! Me: " Khyerang la. One four three lo. What did you say? If you say that it means. Not sure how to translate this, cute, girly way to end your sentences, very common among young nuns.
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Reflections of Reflections: 10/01/2009 - 11/01/2009
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Thursday, October 22, 2009. This afternoon I spent about an hour fruitlessly paging through Mipham's Pramanavartika commentary (legs bshad snang ba'i gter) looking for the line "gzhal bya rang mtshan gcig kho na*" in root text by Dharmakirti. At debate I asked my classmates about this often quoted line, they assured me: "It is there! 169; Damchoe Wongmo. Changes at our nunnery.
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Reflections of Reflections: 04/01/2009 - 05/01/2009
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun, studying in shedra, living in a Tibetan nunnery, translating oral teachings and traditional texts. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Penor Rinpoche with Yangthang Rinpoche. In November 2008, Yangthang Rinpoche came to Namdroling to lead pujas for His Holiness Penor Rinpoche's long life. This picture was taken at a picnic held to celebrate the completion of the pujas. . 169; Damchoe Wongmo. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. A page means one two-sided Tibetan pecha page. . More often the...