Pandan kaya toast and barley drink
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Pandan kaya toast and barley drink
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A macro photo, ground level on the desert sand, of the head and front of the body of a strange, worm-like snake. The snake is of uniform thickness, with no "neck," and vestigial black eye spots under the head scales. It is overall pinkish, like an earthworm, and its scales are smooth and shiny.
Texas Blind Snake, aka Texas Thread Snake (Rena dulcis), SE Arizona. 🐍 These tiny, harmless snakes usually live underground eating termites & ants. A study of Eastern Screech Owls back in the late 1980s showed that the owls, which usually only bring dead prey to their chicks, brought these snakes--
Madilog - Materialisme, Dialektika, dan Logika by Tan Malaka, a purchase from last week
The Hero of Batavia by Pieter Erberveld, translated and introduced by William Bradley Horton and Mayumi Yamamoto, purchased today at Museum Nasional Indonesia
Some book purchases, one from last week and one from today
Chicken Rice at Wee Nam Kee GI
Dinner at Remboelan
Boba french toast 🧋🧋🧋
Brunch of nasi sayur with teh tarik
I lactose intolerant
At Haneda
#RealBuddhaQuotes On this Mother’s Day, we honor the boundless compassion, wisdom, and strength that uplifts all beings—just like the goddess Sarasvati and her nurturing love.
🌸 Know someone whose love feels just like this? Send it to them today.
#mothersday
Cherry Blossoms and Magnolias at High Park
Just days before Vesak, Sotheby's plan to auction off sacred relics of the Buddha—stolen in the colonial destruction of a stūpa, no less—to the highest bidder.
religionnews.com/2025/04/22/a...
FPL team member Somneuk Hongprayoon examines a Kamavaja text from the FPL collection.
Thanks to a grant from Khyentse Foundation, BDRC has been working with the Fragile Palm Leaves (FPL) Foundation in Bangkok since 2016, to digitize their extensive collection of Buddhist manuscripts from SE Asia. Read the full story at khyentsefoundation.org/story/the-fr...
A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book!
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
Kshitigarbha, bodhisattva associated with the earth
🌍 Today on #EarthDay, let's remember Kṣitigarbha, the bodhisattva who embodies the nourishing richness of the earth element.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks are offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room. May all the heartfelt prayers be actualized.
Sepia photograph of Gendun Chopel
NEW TRANSLATION: In Praise of Tārā
by Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951)
We are delighted to announce our first translation of a text by Gendün Chöpel, one of Tibet's most celebrated intellectuals and an accomplished philosopher, artist, historian, and poet.
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
BDG news: Buddhist Heritage: Art Institute of Chicago Returns Stolen 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4uhh3vra
#Buddhism #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistArt #Buddha #Nepal #Kathmandu #Chicago #AIC #Shakyamuni
They are refugees from Bhutan, living in central Pennsylvania
They are in the United States legally
ICE seized them for deportation anyway www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
“philosophy departments should own up to what they’re actually teaching. If they refuse to engage with non-Western traditions, the most honest thing they could do is stop pretending and rebrand as “Departments of European and American Philosophy.” 👏👏👏
Scene from an illuminated Tibetan manuscript depicting the cremation of Milarepa, with the yogin's head visible at the top of a funerary stupa, surrounded by flame, disciples, and deities. The work is a 17th-century manuscript edition of an early version of the Life and Songs of Milarepa known as the Twelve Great Disciples (Bu can bcu gnyis). From the collection of the Newark Museum of Art, Purchase 1936 Carter D. Holton Collection, 36.280.1.1–245.
Photo of 2 small white monuments and a small painted plaque commemorating the cremation of Milarepa at Chubar in southern Tibet. Photo by Andrew Quintman, 1998.
The 14th day of the 1st month of the Tibetan lunar calendar (today) is traditionally used to celebrate the life and liberation of the great poet and yogin Milarepa.
Here is a manuscript illustration of his cremation & a photo of a memorial stupa at his cremation site in Chubar, southern Tibet.
For #InternationalWomensDay2025 we are highlighting some of the female masters whose writings and stories feature on our website.
Yeshe Tsogyal, Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön, Machik Labdron, Sera Khandro, Lochen Chönyi Zangmo, Pema Sal, Mandāravā, Khandro Tāre Lhamo, Khandro Tsering Chödrön...
Two people lifting the top off a long cylindrical wooden tube for storing rolled paintings in a monastery
photograph of a recovered 15th century painting
If you've heard me talking about repatriation claims, you've seen this photo of empty storage containers for paintings stolen from a monastery in Kathmandu in 1980 and eagerly sought ever since. Well - they're finally back in Nepal!
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces a major update to BUDA, our Buddhist Digital Archive. BUDA 2.0, is now available as a beta site at beta.bdrc.io with many new features. Try it out and send us your feedback so we can continue to improve.
Read the full story at bdrc.io/news/
