High in a treeless valley in China's remote Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture lies the the largest Tibetan Buddhist school in the world. Founded in 1980, the Seda Larung Wuming Tibetan Buddhist Institute consists of a few main buildings and a tens of thousands of small dormitories built on the surrounding hillsides. At any given time, the Institute houses up to 40,000 monks and nuns who come from different schools of Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya and Kagyu. Students usually take six years to complete the formal training. Higher levels of training can take 13 years.
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there are only two people left on the planet who were verifiably born in the 19th century.
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” is a classic of what was later named the New Journalism. Didion used a vernacular voice that mimicked the laid-back aimlessness of Haight speech. More New Journalistically, she adopted a Haight personality. She blended into the scene; she internalized its confusions. She gave readers the sense that she was putting herself at risk by reporting this story, that she might get sucked into the Haight abyss and become a lost soul, too...
the lack of a female road narrative and why it matters
went to see some comedy on a whim. it was the perfect storm. saw her mention it on twitter about an hour before the show and it was at the ucb east on third street and it was at 645 and it was 5 bucks. wrote for the letterman show and is a producer on the daily show. was prepping her act to go to the edinburgh festival. not the funniest ever but endearing enough for 5 bucks on a monday at pre-dusk.
the spammer algorithm has finally decided to send me j-date spam instead of christian mingle. little do they know that i am a self hating jew. maybe the "j" stands for jihadi. id click through to find out but i suspect id end up on the nsa's spam list, too, and they are the worst. you do not want to know what lengths they go to for penis enlargements.
The mysterious origin of Spidey’s costume.
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent.
unequivocal statement from the white house for a change.
diggerland NJ
i have been getting this sidebar add on fb / yipes!
mom, can i have $200,000? i want to major in the comedic arts. no, thats not a joke. why are you laughing?
who the hell is ready for some dental damnation? theres blood... theres gore... theres viscera.... theres... a bubble panel?
what isnt there?
cable glands.
and a story! im too lazy!
welcome to my world.
rolling huts in methow valley
drip... drip... drip.... CRASH!!!
half my bathroom ceiling fell in.
one week until its been a year since i had my last haircut. (i fact checked the date. it was during australias second wc game. remember that wonder goal by tim cahill?) can i keep procrastinating as i have for the last four months to push it past a year? my money is on yes.
"We're delighted that Brontosaurus is back..."
In her new book, Michelle Goldberg traces the Western practice of yoga to a Russian woman named Indra Devi. Goldberg says that many of the poses in modern yoga can't be traced beyond 150 years ago.
had another bike light ripped off from in front of the same whole foods that my bike was stolen a year and a half ago. jokes on them though as it is a $5 chinese piece of shit with big chunks of plastic missing from the housing from when ive dropped it. enjoy throwing that in the trash, motherfuckers.
the usps must have been legally required to change their name because all i ever get from them is annoyed while receiving very little service. im waiting on a package which i was pleased to see had a fed ex tracking number but once it got to nyc they offloaded it to usps. i have only one time actually had a package delivered from them without having to go retrieve it from the post office. but now with my last two packages they arent even leaving me a slip in my mailbox so i can get it without an expected hassle. last time at least i had a usps tracking number and i scheduled a delivery which to my surprise they made but this one has only a fed ex tracking number so it doesnt work in the usps system. and me without decent id (i know, fuck off) makes it one degree more difficult. fuck you, post office for failing at the most basic level of competence.