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Thursday, January 31, 2013

I sléibhte le mo theaghlach

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D'imigh mo chlann go sléibhte ar mhí agus an blianta ag an deireadh seo caite. Tá dith orainn a fheiceáil sneachta ar chéile. Bhí an a...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"Words of My Perfect Teacher": Film Review

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How can you t ru st a reinca rnated lama, a teacher as an ass a ssin, ready to cut down y our ego? What if this same enlightened one dism...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

"Travellers and Magicians": Film Review

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As the first feature-length film from Bhutan, lama-director Khyentse Norbu's 2003 follow-up to his festival success of soccer-mad Tibe...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Michael Aris' "Views of Medieval Bhutan": Book Review

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The adjective's elastic here, as this Himalayan scholar (who died of cancer in 1999 in Britain while his wife, Aung San Suu Kyi, was u...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Matthieu Ricard's "Bhutan: the Land of Serenity": Book Review

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Unlike other photo narratives on this often mythologized kingdom, this one from a practicing monk takes a sober, almost detached approach...
Monday, January 21, 2013

"Bhutan Heartland": Book Review

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Libby Lloyd and Robert van Koesveld report from spring times on the Lateral Road, the east-west connection across the vertiginous valley...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Mary Peck's "Bhutan: Between Heaven and Earth": Book Review

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From visits totaling seven months from 1999 to 2005 to this Himalayan kingdom, Mary Peck's fifty-six black-and-white photographs, each o...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Nicole Grace's "Dreaming Bhutan": Book Review

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How does this book, praised by nearly all previous [Amazon US] reviewers, compare with similar images paired with text? I've looked at...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Grús nó Gé?

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Nuair chuaigh go mo fhuinneoig thuas staighre inné, chonaic mé seo. Shíl mé go raibh mála plaisteach bán. Shéid an gaoth go leor ar na cno...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

"Bhutan: Mountain Fortress of the Gods": Book Review

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This folio-format study commemorates a Viennese exhibition at the Museum für Völkerkunde in 1997-98. While scholarly, and hefty in size an...
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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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