by Charles Cameron | Sep 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Obama’s speech viewed in the light of Beijing Buddhism ] . Compare and contrast, saith the improbable schoolmaster, this discussion: China urges Dalai Lama to respect practice of reincarnation: China has repeated a call on the Dalai...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of the Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary, by way of Bamiyan and Timbuktu, the Cordoba Mezquita and Cathedral ] . The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary, then and now ** Today as I write this, it is Tisha b’Av — the day on which the...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 30, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — catching up on Thailand ] . Michael Yon calls it “possibly the largest or one of the largest peaceful uprisings in history”. As Zenpundit readers know, it’s the religious side of things I am most interested in, but...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in mental preparation for tonight’s lunar eclipse, together with some quick eschatology, plenty of blood, and an Incan jaguar ] . The upper panel, above, shows a detail of Hieronymus Bosch‘s Ghent representation of Christ...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...
