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Friday, January 11, 2013

Michael Hawley's "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey": Book Review

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T his younger sibling to the world's biggest book continued raising funds for medical and educational projects "across the last H...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Robert Dompnier's "Bhutan: Kingdom of the Dragon": Book Review

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This offers a French photographer's array of images taken during many visits in the 1990s, emphasizing tradition and crafts. While sho...
Monday, January 7, 2013

"The Dragon Kingdom: Images of Bhutan": Book Review

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This 1983 large-format book combines a Buddhist-infused commentary by Blanche Christine Olschak with photographs by Ursula Markus-Gansser ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

"Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness": Film Review

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"Gross National Happiness" increasingly grows familiar as a catchphrase to sum up Bhutan's ambitions to orient its Himalayan...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

John Wehrheim's "Bhutan: Hidden Lands of Happiness": Book Review

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Here's a deeper look into these pages. Previous {Amazon} reviewers laud John Wehrheim's evocative b/w photographs ; these compli...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

John Wehrheim's "Taylor Camp": Book Review

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"Exotic locations with beautiful women" accurately captures much but not all of the charm of this handsome study. John W...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Ulchabhán nó siogairlín?

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Thug Léna dom seo ar feadh leathanta saoire faoi deireadh. Mheas mé go raibh a fheicéail chomh ulchabán. Ar ndóigh, mbeadh sé chomhtharlú ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

"Brilliant Moon": Film Review

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Narrated by Richard Gere, this documentary calmly relates the long life (1910-1991) of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who fled Tibet for Bhutan....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

"The Spirit of Tibet": Film Review

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This is one of two recent documentaries about the influential Tibetan teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991). He taught the present ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

John O'Hanlon's "The Buddhist of Castleknock": Book Review

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Guess who's coming for Christmas? This Irish tragicomedy of manners as culture clash, set in a changing Dublin, features Jim O'Han...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Michel Peissel's "Mustang: The Forbidden Kingdom": Book Review

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As a child, I learned about this thumb-shaped projection of an independent, feudal principality in Nepal that stuck into the Chinese-occup...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Michel Peissel's "Lords and Lamas": Book Review

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Subtitled "A Solitary Expedition across the Secret Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan," this 1970 account of this renowned explorer...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Earl of Ronaldshay's "Lands of the Thunderbolt": Book Review

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The thunderbolt is the "dorje," the bell-like scepter wielded by lamas in the Vajrayana Tibetan tradition, the lands those of Si...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Kate Teltscher's "The High Road to China": Book Review

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In 1780, the Panchen Lama asked the Qianlong Emperor of China to enter into friendship with the Governor of Hindostan (northern India), Ge...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Teamhair Ghlas

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Bhí ag scríobh léirmheas de 2003 dráma An Búdaí na Chaisleáin Cnucha le Séamus Ó hAnluain faoi deireanach. D'inis sé faoi teaghlach Sh...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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