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80Hoshi Ryokan the oldest hotel in the world
To run a business is not easy but to run it successfully for more than 1300 years is really amazing. This is the story of Hoshi Ryokan the oldest hotel in the world according Guinness Book of World...
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86Ashok: A Short Biography of Ashoka the Great of India
According to Wikipedia, H.G. Wells wrote: "In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who call themselves "their highnesses," "their majesties", and "their exalted majesties"...
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79Sera Monastery, Tibet
On the streets of Lhasa during my lunch break, I saw a woman with a long table on which she served ramen noodles from a heaping huge bowl. In Tibet, Muslim women wear elegant black snoods, and this...
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78San Francisco Journal, Day Six
7/4/2006 There’s so much trash on the streets, along the curb, that I have to wonder if they actually have street cleaners. This is the downtown area, like the street in front of the hotel. Today I went...
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75Sutta Pitaka: The Jātaka Tales
Buddhism has a unique spiritual leader. Gautama Buddha was born 550 times, as a bodhisattvas, each life a different animal. The Jataka has a story for each one of these lives. Ranging from Jatakas about monkeys to Jatakas about hares and jackals the Jataka..
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70Bo Bobo and His Nosehairs of Fury
photo by tomeemayeepa Nasal hair. According to the sages, it is an important filtering device, protecting our respiratory system from the invasion of particles less than five nanometers in size. It is also...
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68Ordination as a Buddhist Monk in Thailand
after ordination ceremony - the ladies on the floor in front of the Dais are my Mother (who i have only seen once before in the last 25 years), and my sister in law. The monk to the far left is my teacher and...
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82Luang Poo Waen Wat Doi Mae Pahng Famous Thai Monk
In Thailand, there were a few popular Thai monks that had helped many people in time of need and one of them was Luang Poo Waen Wat Doi Mae Pahng. It was known that Luang Poo Waen Wat Doi Mae Pahng was a...
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82The Dalai Lama's Potala Palace
In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, I met up with my tour guide Gyantzing and the driver a little early, like around 9:15, and we headed off to the Potala! Oh, where to begin. The Dalai Lama’s palace, which...
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57San Francisco Journal, Day Eight
7/6/2006 Here’s something that has crossed my mind while reading Arundhati Roy’s nonfiction: Being anti-Bush and anti-war is pro-American. Wanting this country to reject fascism, patriarchy, and...
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