🚨Important new Tibetan Studies account for everyone to follow.
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 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.
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.
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
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 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
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
