Jann Ronis

Himal Southasian’s coverage of the revolution in Nepal

Conveniently enough I grew up on Mercado Drive, so Falafel Market

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Brilliant take on bodhi svāhā

Best news in days: an impressive Tibetan reading room opened within UVA's newly renovated Edgar Shannon Library. Worthy of a name like བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ནོར་བུ་དགའ་ཚལ or ངེས་དོན་དགའ་བའི་ཚལ

An earthquake? In Dublin, CA? On St. Paddy’s Day? Groundbreaking

He missed the actual story. Jill Lepore’s review takes the book to task for failing to document the systemic brutality of the racism society in which he was raised and the impact they have had on his attitudes and ideology.

You need to factor in their plans for the “robots” as well (automation, social control, domestic paramilitary, etc.)

Anam Thubten doing quality control on a volume of NGB before it was given to the scanners. This photo captures well this teacher's elegance add relaxed focus.

Anam Thubten and Chakhung Rinpoche spent hours helping with the QC of the scanning project. They checked every page of the 26 volumes to make sure that the pagination was correct and to check for missing pages. The few missing pages could be found in the 2 other sets of the NGB at Abhaya Fellowship.

BUDA - Buddhist Digital Archives The Buddhist Digital Archives by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center. A cooperative platform for expanding access to Buddhist literature. Explore the millions of pages of texts contributed by BDRC and its many partners.

View and download this highly readable copy of Derge Edition of the Nyingma Gyubum for free on @buddhistarchive.bsky.social's digital library at purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW1...

This print originates from newly carved blocks replicating the late-18th century Derge Edition. These blocks are faithful replicas of the originals, with no additions, deletions, or significant edits. BDRC's scans of the original Derge edition contain unclear passages due to woodblock wear.

(L to R) Anam Thubten and Chakhung Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche at the Abhaya Fellowship in El Cerrito, CA

All 26 volumes of the Derge Edition of the Nyingma Gyubum.

March 14, 2025 is a major Buddhist holiday known as the Display of Miracles (ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་དུས་ཆེན Chotrul Düchen). BDRC is celebrating with the publication of a collection that is something of a modern day miracle: prints of a new set of woodblocks of the Nyingma Gyubum recently carved in Derge, Tibet.

I think LOTS more freezes are forthcoming in the next few days, including from institutions with enormous endowments that haven’t been announced yet. The slow-moving higher ed crisis is now a landslide. Hard to envision a recovery of the U.S.’s university system…

An “undocumented” Tesla dealership. How rich.
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Photo album of epic road trip from Chengdu to Lhasa in 1985

Medieval Zen Texts｜International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) Beginning with the Japanese studies materials that Nichibunken has collected, we create databases of research findings andJapanese studies materials in the collections of other institutions.

For scans of Zen and other Japanese Buddhist manuscripts you can try:
www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/db/catego...
iriz.hanazono.ac.jp
21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/index.html
(forgive the very partial list)

Also, the official English trans. of the complete Shobogenzo is back in stock: sotozen.us/re-stock-off...

BDRC has archived many editions of the East Asian Canon. We have not worked directly in Japan to digitize manuscripts in part because the main temples and libraries are already carrying out this work. BDRC instead prioritizes less resourced traditions such as the Tibetan, Khmer, and Burmese.

The Church Fixer Thousands of churches around the country close every year. In Brooklyn, one pastor is trying to help struggling parishes keep their doors open.

The Church Fixer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/b... Many Buddhist congregations and nonprofits need a bodhisattva like her.

📢 New Book Alert! Dive into Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis. This multidisciplinary examination of the upper Brahmaputra and Yangzi rivers systems offers a unique “braided river” approach. 🌊📚 #RiverScience. Here’s what’s in the book, chapter by chapter. 🧵1/11

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

X/Twitter has really become unbearable.

Thanks to @marcomaroni.it's simple programme, I was able to transfer most of my tweets (136) from Twitter/X to 🌤️@bsky.app

Note that all tweets up to this point have been imported. #newhere

Programme and instructions on github: github.com/marcomaroni-...

Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included.

go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S