Six Beijing Residents After Reading Hillary's Book

Just got back to Mongolia this afternoon after a short sojourn in China.


Ground Zero in China: the entrance to the Forbidden City on the north side of Tiananmen Square

Just returned from Wu Tai Shan, one of the four sacred mountains of China, in Shanxi province. Photos to follow. Spend two days in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi. Now in Beijing. More to come. . .

Ladies of the Khangai Mountains

RIP Johnny Cash

Stupas at Erdene Zuu, founded in 1578 by Avtai Khan, great-grandfather of Zanabazar

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Madame Blavatsky superimposed on a Shambhala thangka in the City Museum in Graz, Austria, the Dharma Wear capital of the World.

Just reread Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth. Great "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" book. No one could have ever dreamed up Madame Blavatsky but Madame Blavatsky herself.


Madame Blavatsky

Riders of the Purple Sage (Khangai Mountains, Mongolia. August 18, 2003)

That's it. I have had it. My patience is completely exhausted. Smithers, release the Hounds.

Whatever turns you on: Giant Dino Feces Excites Researchers.

Zanabazar's Sitasamvara in the Choijin Lama Museum

Wandered up to the Gandan Monastery this morning and ended up in the Kalachakra Temple. Much to my surprise the Kalachakra Thangkas Which Were Once At Shankh Monastery are now here in the Gandan Kalachakra Temple. These seven thangkas, which depict the 722 Kalachakra deities and much else, are to my knowledge unique. I have not even seen such thangkas in Tibet, although the 722 Kalachakra deities and associated images are depicted in wall paintings at the Kalachakra Temple in Dharamsala, India, where I saw them a few years ago.


Chenresig Temple at Gandan

Statue of Amitabha, by Zanabazar, the First Bogd Gegen of Mongolia.