Podcasts about Tibet

On today's Prison Pulpit, we start and finish with Venezuela, as my Venezuelan teammate writes in with four ways to pray for his country at this time of both joy and uncertainty. But the bulk of today's podcast is a story from my good friend Uncle Bundo about what happened in Thomson Prison on New Year's Day 2025. Let his testimony warm and encourage you to pray for all those believers who are in prison! (Scroll down for more notes...) I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every single day. Please send any questions or comments to a new, secure email: chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be found at PrayGiveGo.us! One last thing: I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which now only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or person, like Tibet, Pastor Wang Yi, or Richard Wurmbrand. (2:43) Venezuela no longer a prison: We have very close friends and teammates from Venezuela, so I understand the situation there better than most, however it dawned on me today that after the liberation of Venezuela from the dictator Maduro, I probably should have been praying for the people (Christians, especially) much more than I have. Their situation these past 10+ years especially has been very much akin to being in a prison cell. Hence, nearly ⅓ (8+ million) “escaped” during that time for survival’s sake. I may have more to say on a future podcast, but for now I want to point out that although we probably haven’t been praying for Venezuela as we ought to have done, I guarantee you that Venezuelan Christians (esp. those who had found freedom abroad) were quote “Remembering those in prison (back in Venezuela) as if they themselves were still bound with them”. In other words, they knew what it was like in that failed socialist state, and could pray as the author of Hebrews intended; not vague, faraway prayers, but knowledgeable, precise prayers as those who understood suffering and all that was at stake. For all those who prayed in such a way, whether Venezuelan refugees, concerned Christians around the world, or the Venezuelan people themselves, how awesome it is to see God so clearly answer prayer! (Note: with the current power vacuum there, we ought to continue to pray God would raise up humble, godly leadership during this dangerous transition time.) (7:26) Uncle Bundo’s New Year’s Prison Preaching Plan: In the summer of 2024, I interviewed a few of my friends who were being sentenced by the Biden DOJ for their participation in a peaceful prayer vigil while blocking the entrance to a (now shuttered) abortion clinic in Nashville back in 2021. Uncle Bundo was given 6 months in Federal Prison, which he served in rural Illinois. I share this by way of introduction, because I want to read you a story, a testimony, that Uncle Bundo shared on his Facebook page on New Year’s Day about what happened on LAST YEAR’S New Year’s Day. (23:07) Pray for Venezuela: 1) Churches/Pastors 2) Peaceful Transition 3) All Believers 4) Safety Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! There’s also a donation link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to support our China ministry. For everything else, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!

In this episode, we are joined by award-winning author, editor, and former journalist Deepa Anappara to learn more about her second novel and latest release, the epic historical fiction novel The Last of Earth. We really enjoyed our conversation with Deepa and it was amazing to hear the depth of research and experience she brought to writing her novel. Our conversation with Deepa delved into her career as a journalist before becoming a fiction author, learned how her journalism career and skills she developed through that worked helped her fiction writing, we talk about research and the importance of research, learn more about her new novel, The Last of Earth, hear about her trip to Tibet, and much more. To learn more, visit Deepa's website and follow her on Instagram.

How often do we go somewhere with a preconceived idea and find it hard to really see other perspectives ... well, speaking for myself, pretty often! In this episode I share three stories which highlight ways to learn about and understand different perspectives - but are also just great stories on their own. First up, Kiliii Yuyan tells me about his experiences in Palau, and shares a fascinating story from Palauan culture which is vital to helping their coral reefs recover from algal blooms in a way I wish other reefs could. Next, Jamie Burr explains some of the results of his research into Chinese attitudes to carbon offsets - quite honestly, a perspective I'd never considered, and an interesting one indeed! Finally, Monisha Rajesh shares two examples of overlooked, alternative perspectives, one from her travels in Tibet, and another from a fellow tourist in North Korea. Links: Killii Yuyan’s website - https://kiliii.com/ Kiliii’s new book - Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring the Planet - https://amzn.to/3YcpYUx Jamie Burr - https://jamieburr.com/ Monisha’s website https://monisharajesh.com/ Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train - https://amzn.to/4mm4UEN Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Join our LinkedIn group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://notaballerina.com/linkedin Sign up for the Thoughtful Travellers newsletter at Substack - https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/377 *Full disclosure: Amazon Services LLC Associates ProgramNotABallerina.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raphaëlle de Barmon reçoit Sabine de la Moissonière pour présenter et décrypter ensemble quatre films. Cette fois-ci, elles parlent de : A chacun sa guerre de John Avnet Sur les quais d'Elia Kazan 7 ans au Tibet de Jean-Jacques Annaud Incroyable mais vrai de Quentin Dupieux

སྐྱབས་མགོན་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་དྲུང་གོོ་ཤྲི་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་བཞི་བཅུ་པ་སྐོང་འཚོགས། The post སྐྱབས་མགོན་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་དྲུང་གོོ་ཤྲི་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་བཞི་བཅུ་པ་སྐོང་འཚོགས། appeared first on vot.

དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༥ ཉིན་གྱི་སྔ་དྲོར་བོད་མིའི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་པཱ་ལི་དང་ལེགས་སྦྱར་བའི་དགེ་འདུན་དབར་ཤེས་ཡོན་བརྗེ་ལེན་གྱི་ལས་གཞི་ཐེངས་བཞི་པའི་ཚོགས་བཅར་དང་དགོན་སྡེ་ཁག་གི་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བཅས་ལ་མཇལ་ཁ་བཀའ་དྲིན་སྩལ་ཡོད་པ་དང་སྦྲགས། ལྷག་པར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག་ནང་པའི་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གསར་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ལས་གཞིར་ཐུགས་འགན་བཞེས་མཁན་གདན་ས་ཁག་གི་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་ University Grants Commission (UGC) རྒྱ་གར་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་རོགས་དངུལ་ལྷན་ཁང་གི་དྲུང་ཆེ་གཞོན་པ་ Dr. Vinod Singh Yadav ཝེ་ནོད་སིང་ཡཱ་ཌེབ་བཅས་ལ་མཇལ་ཁ་བཀའ་དྲིན་སྩལ་འདུག དེ་ཡང་དེ་རིང་གི་མཇལ་ཁའི་སྐབས། བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན་ནི་དཔལ་ན་ལེནྜའི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཕྱི་འདུལ་བ། ནང་བྱང་སེམས། གསང་བ་གསང་སྔགས་དང་བཅས་པའི་ཆོས་ཧ་ཅང་གི་སྤུས་དག་པོ་ཡོད་སྟབས། ལོ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་དང་སྟོང་ཕྲག་གནས་པའི་དོན་དུ་མུ་མཐུད་རྒྱུན་འཛིན་བྱ་དགོས་གལ་ཙམ་མ་ཟད། རྒྱ་ནག་སོགས་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡུལ་གྲུ་གང་སར་ནང་ཆོས་ལ་དོ་སྣང་ཆེན་པོ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པར་སྤུས་དག་པོ་ཞིག་དར་ཁྱབ་ཡོང་རྒྱུའི་ཐད་འགན་འཁུར་དང་དགོངས་བཞེས་དགོས་གལ་སོགས་ཀྱི་བཀའ་སློབ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་བ་སྩལ་འདུག མཇལ་ཁ་གྲུབ་མཚམས་འདི་ག་གསར་འགོད་པས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དྲུང་ཆེ། དགའ་ལྡན་ཤར་རྩེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སངས་རྒྱས་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་སྐབས། ཁོང་གིས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་པཱ་ལི་དང་ལེགས་སྦྱར་བའི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དགེ་འདུན་དབར་ཤེས་ཡོན་བརྗེ་ལེན་གྱི་ལས་གཞི་འགྲོ་བཞིན་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ད་རེས་ཐེངས་ ༤ པ་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ད་ལོའི་ལས་གཞི་དེ་ཐོག་མ་གནས་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་དུ་དབུ་འཛུགས་གནང་། དེའི་རྗེས་གནས་མཆོག་ཝཱ་རཱ་ན་སཱིར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ཝཱ་ཎ་དབུས་བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་དུ་ཚོགས་པ་དེའི་སྐོར་མགོན་པོ་༸གང་ཉིད་མཆོག་ལ་སྙན་སེང་དང་། ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་གཉིས་ནས་སྨོན་ལམ་གསུང་འདོན་ཞུས་ཡོད་སྐོར་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། རྩ་བའི་ད་རེས་ལས་གཞི་དེའི་ནང་པཱ་ལིའི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་པའི་ཁོངས་ནས་ཐའེ་ལེནྜ་དང་ལ་འོ་སི། ཀོམ་བྷོ་ཌི་ཡ། བྷར་མ། ཤྲི་ལངྐ་བཅས་དང་། ལེགས་སྦྱར་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཁོངས་ནས་གདན་ས་གསུམ་གྱི་གྲྭ་ཚང་དྲུག བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ། ར་སྟོད། རྒྱུད་གྲྭ་རྣམ་གཉིས། རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྲྭ་ཚང་། ཇོ་ནང་། དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ་སོགས་དགོན་སྡེ་ཁག་མང་པོ་ཞིག་ནས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། ལས་གཞི་དེའི་ཐོག་ནས་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་གཉིས་ཕན་ཚུན་བར་འདུལ་བའི་ཉམས་བཞེས་དང་གཞི་གསུམ་གྱི་ཆོ་ག སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཉམས་བཞེས། སློབ་གཉེར། འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས། སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་སོགས་གནད་དོན་མང་པོའི་ཐོག་གོ་བསྡུར་དང་ཤེས་ཡོན་བརྗེ་ལེན་གནང་གི་ཡོད་རེད། ལྷག་པར་དགེ་འདུན་པའི་བར་ཐུགས་མཐུན་ཁྲིམས་གཙང་ཡོང་རྒྱུར་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཡོང་གི་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག ལས་གཞི་དེ་ནི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དང་དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ལྷོ་ཤར་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡའི་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པའི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག་བསྐོང་ཚོགས་གནང་གི་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ད་བར་གདས་ས་ཆེན་པོ་འབྲས་སྤུངས་དང་སེར་ར། དགའ་ལྡན་བཅས་སུ་རིམ་པ་ཚོགས་ཡོད། མ་ཟད་དེ་རིང་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྒྲིག་འོག་ནང་པའི་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གསར་འཛུགས་ལས་གཞིའི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་རྒྱ་གར་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་རོགས་དངུལ་ལྷན་ཁང་ University Grants Commission (UGC) […] The post རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་པཱ་ལི་དང་ལེགས་སྦྱར་བའི་དགེ་འདུན་དབར་ཤེས་ཡོན་བརྗེ་ལེན་ཚོགས་བཅར་བ་དང་། UGC དྲུང་ཆེ་གཞོན་པར་མཇལ་ཁ། appeared first on vot.

1. His Holiness the Dalai Lama Bestows Ordination to 153 Monks at Drepung Monastery 2. Congressional Executive Commission on China Assert Pressing Rights Abuses by Chinese Government in Tibet 3. Tibetan Chief Justice Commissioner Visits Tibetan Settlements in South India 4. Kalon Dolma Gyari Attends 55th Anniversary of Gaden Shartse Thoesam Norling School 5. Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile Interacts with Young Indians on Tibet

དྲ་རྒྱའི་ངན་བྱུས་འཇབ་རྐུས་འོག་བོད་མི་ཞིག་གི་ཧིན་སྒོར་བྱེ་བ་ ༡།༦༡ འཕྲོག་བཅོམ་བྱས་འདུག The post དྲྭ་རྒྱའི་ངན་བྱུས་འཇབ་རྐུས་འོག་བོད་མི་ཞིག་གི་ཧིན་སྒོར་བྱེ་བ་ ༡།༦༡ འཕྲོག་བཅོམ་བྱས་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Welcome to this final episode of the year of the Prison Pulpit on the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every single day. Please send any questions or comments to a new, secure email: chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be found at PrayGiveGo.us! For much of the past year we have been working through a book by Richard Wurmbrand, entitled “Sermons in Solitary Confinement”. His past writings speak to us on behalf of those of the persecuted church who are currently, actively, being imprisoned and tortured for Christ, reminding us to pray for them. We haven’t gone through every Prison Sermon from this book, but probably more than half. And today is the final one. Sermons in Solitary Confinement (Free PDF): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/ssc-english.pdf By the way, for those who don't know who Richard Wurmband is, here's a brief introduction: Lutheran minister in Romania. 14 years in prison, including 3 in solitary confinement. After “escaping” abroad in the 1960s, published ”Tortured for Christ" and testified to Congress. Helped start Voice of the Martyrs (but his son Michael doesn’t trust VOM). Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM letter: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html Michael Wurmbrand’s ministry (more free books!): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/ Clean Every Whit (China Call Substack) https://chinacall.substack.com/p/clean-every-whit Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any relevant questions or comments. I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which now only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or person, like Tibet, Pastor Wang Yi, or Richard Wurmbrand. One last thing: There’s also a donation link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to support our China ministry. For everything else, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!

Welcome to this final episode of the year of the Prison Pulpit on the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every single day. Please send any questions or comments to a new, secure email: chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be found at PrayGiveGo.us! For much of the past year we have been working through a book by Richard Wurmbrand, entitled “Sermons in Solitary Confinement”. His past writings speak to us on behalf of those of the persecuted church who are currently, actively, being imprisoned and tortured for Christ, reminding us to pray for them. We haven’t gone through every Prison Sermon from this book, but probably more than half. And today is the final one. Sermons in Solitary Confinement (Free PDF): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/ssc-english.pdf By the way, for those who don't know who Richard Wurmband is, here's a brief introduction: Lutheran minister in Romania. 14 years in prison, including 3 in solitary confinement. After “escaping” abroad in the 1960s, published ”Tortured for Christ" and testified to Congress. Helped start Voice of the Martyrs (but his son Michael doesn’t trust VOM). Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM letter: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html Michael Wurmbrand’s ministry (more free books!): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/ Clean Every Whit (China Call Substack) https://chinacall.substack.com/p/clean-every-whit Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any relevant questions or comments. I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which now only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or person, like Tibet, Pastor Wang Yi, or Richard Wurmbrand. One last thing: There’s also a donation link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to support our China ministry. For everything else, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!

༸དཔལ་ས་སྐྱའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཞི་བདེའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་ ༣༤ པ་གནས་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་དུ་འཚོག་བཞིན་པ། The post ༸དཔལ་ས་སྐྱའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཞི་བདེའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་ ༣༤ པ་གནས་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་དུ་འཚོག་བཞིན་པ། appeared first on vot.

རྒྱ་གར་བྱང་ཤར་ནང་བོད་ཀྱི་གཞོན་ནུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཆེས་ཐོག་མ། The post རྒྱ་གར་བྱང་ཤར་ནང་བོད་ཀྱི་གཞོན་ནུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཆེས་ཐོག་མ། appeared first on vot.

བྱེས་ཀྱི་གདན་ས་ཆེན་མོ་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་དུ་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་གོ་སྟོན་ཆེན་མོའི་མཛད་སྒོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་རིས་མེད་མཁས་པའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་ཞིག་དབུ་འཛུགས་གནང་འདུག དེ་ཡང་ཁ་སང་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ ཚེས་ ༢༨ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་མོན་གྷོ་འདོད་རྒུ་གླིང་དུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་དུ་༸སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དགུང་གྲངས་དགུ་བཅུར་ཕེབས་པའི་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་ལ་འབྲས་སྤུངས་མཁས་མང་བློ་གསལ་བྱེ་བའི་གླིང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་མཁན་བླ་འདུས་མང་ཡོངས་ནས་ལྷ་ཕྱག་གྲངས་མེད་དང་བཅས་དགའ་དད་སྤྲོ་གསུམ་གྱིས་གོ་སྟོན་ཆེན་མོའི་མཛད་སྒོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་པ་མ་ཟད། དེ་རིང་འཇམ་མགོན་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་ ༡༠༥ རྗེ་བཙུན་བློ་བཟང་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག་དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཁྲི་ཟུར་ཟམ་གདོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དབུས། སྒོ་མང་དང་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་གི་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་རྣམ་གཉིས། དེ་བཞིན་དབུས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་རྒྱ་རི་སྒྲོལ་མ་མཆོག་དང་ཆོས་རིག་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་དྲུང་ཆེ་བདུད་འདུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལགས། གཞན་ཡང་ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་ཆེད་མཁས་པ། བོད་ཀྱི་ས་དགེ་བཀའ་རྙིང་ཇོ་ནང་གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་བཅས་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཆེན་པོ་ཁག་གི་མཁས་པ་དང་དགེ་བཤེས།  དགེ་བཤེས་མ་སོགས་ཁྱོན་མི་གྲངས་ ༣༥༠ ལྷག་ལྷན་འཛོམས་ཐོག་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཆེན་མོའི་སྐོར་རིས་མེད་མཁས་པའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་ཞིག་དབུ་འབྱེད་གནང་འདུག འདི་ག་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གིས་བགྲོ་གླེང་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ཚོགས་མི་ཁོངས་སུ་ཡོད་པ་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གྱི་བླ་མ་གཞུང་ལས་པ་དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷ་རམས་པ་བསྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་མཆོག་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་པར། ཁོང་གིས་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་དུ་ལོ་ལྟར་གཞུང་ཆེན་བཀའ་པོད་ལྔའི་ཐོག་མཁས་པའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་སྣ་མང་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ཀྱང་ད་ལན་རིས་མེད་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཁག་གི་མཁས་པ་དང་དགེ་བཤེས། དགེ་བཤེས་མ་སོགས་གདན་ཞུས་ཀྱིས་བགྲོ་གླེང་འདི་རིགས་ཚོགས་པ་ཆེས་ཐོག་མ་ཡིན་ཞེས་གསུངས་སོང་། ད་ལན་གྱི་རིས་མེད་མཁས་པའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་དེ་བཞིན་དེ་རིང་ནས་དབུ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་ཟླ་ ༡ ཚེས་ ༡ བར་ཉིན་གྲངས་བཞིའི་རིང་འཚོག་གནང་གི་ཡོད་ཅིང་། དེའི་ནང་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཐོག་རྒྱུད་མངའ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོད་པའི་མཁས་དབང་ ༢༤ ཡིས་སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལེའུ་དགུ་པ་བར་གྱི་དཔྱད་རྩོམ་ཐོག་གསུང་བཤད་དང་དྲི་བ་དྲིས་ལན་གནང་རྒྱུ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིན་མཐའ་མའི་ཉིན་རྒྱབ་བགྲོ་གླེང་གི་མཇུག་སྡོམ་གནང་རྒྱུ་བཅས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རིམ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། རྩ་བའི་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་གི་མཁན་བླ་འདུས་མང་ཡོངས་ནས་ཁ་སང་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན་སྔ་དྲོ་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་གཟིམས་ཆུང་དུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཤིག་འདེགས་འབུལ་ཞུས་རྗེས་དངོས་གཞིའི་མཛད་སྒོ་ཟབ་རྒྱས་ཤིག་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པའི་ཐོག་སྐུ་མགྲོན་གཙོ་བོ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་རྒྱ་གར་དབུས་གཞུང་གི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་དོན་བློན་ཆེན་ཀི་རེན་རི་ཇི་ཇུ་མཆོག་དབུས། ༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཁྲི་ཟུར་ཟམ་གདོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག སྒོ་མང་དང་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་གི་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་རྣམ་གཉིས། གཞན་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་ས་གནས་གཞིས་འགོ། ཕྱོགས་མཐའ་ཁག་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་མཁས་དབང་བཅས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། སྐབས་དེར་སྐུ་མགྲོན་གཙོ་བོ་རྒྱ་གར་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་དོན་བློན་ཆེན་ཀི་རེན་རི་ཇི་ཇུ་མཆོག་གིས། ད་ལྟའི་འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་མི་མཐུན་པ་དང་འཁྲུག་རྩོད་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་འོག་ཏུ་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་བཏོན་གནང་མཛད་པའི་འཚེ་མེད་ཞི་བ་དང་སྙིང་རྗེའི་ལམ་ནི་གལ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་པ་མ་ཟད། མགོན་པོ་༸གང་ཉིད་མཆོག་ནི་གནའ་བོའི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ཤེས་བྱའི་མཛོད་ཡིན་པ་བརྗོད་དེ་ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་མཆོག་ནི་གནའ་བོའི་ཤེས་རིག་དང་དེང་རབས་ཀྱི་འཛམ་གླིང་བར་གྱི་ཟམ་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་འདུག སྐུ་ཞབས་ཁོང་གིས་ད་དུང་རྒྱ་གར་ནང་གི་བོད་མིའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ལ་གཞུང་ནས་མཁོ་བའི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཡོད་ཚད་གནང་རྒྱུའི་ཁས་ལེན་གནང་འདུག་ཅིང་། གཞན་ཡང་ཨུཏྟ་ར་ཀཎ་ཌ་ནས་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ Vishveshwarayya Hegde Kageri ཡིས་ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ནི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་མཐུན་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་བརྡ་ལན་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་སྤེལ་བའི་སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་འདུག མ་ཟད་༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་བཀའ་བློན་ཁྲི་ཟུར་མཁས་དབང་ཟམ་གདོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བའི་ནང་གཙོ་བོ་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བཀའ་གསུང་ཅི་སྒྲུབ་ཞུས་ཏེ་བོད་རྒྱ་ཆེ་མང་ཚོགས་རྣམས་མཐུན་ལམ་རྡོག་རྩ་གཅིག་དྲིལ་ཐོག་ནུས་པ་མཉམ་སྤུངས་དང་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་ཁྲིད་ཐབས་སླད་འབད་བརྩོན་གནང་དགོས་པའི་རེ་སྐུལ་ཞུས་སོང་། The post འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་དུ་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཆེན་མོའི་སྐོར་རིས་མེད་མཁས་པའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་དབུ་འཛུགས། appeared first on vot.

Ter gelegenheid van zijn 90ste verjaardag bevestigde de 14de dalai lama dat er na zijn dood een opvolger komt via reïncarnatie. De zoektocht naar die reïncarnatie gebeurt via een eeuwenoude traditie. Maar zowel de Tibetaanse boeddhistische autoriteit in India als de - atheïstische- Chinese overheid beweren dat zij alleen het recht hebben om die opvolger aan te duiden. Zitten we binnenkort met 2 dalai lama's?

After looking back at the most (and least) popular episodes from the past year or so, I share the story of almost dying when I lost my brakes (with five South African friends in tow) going down a 14,700 ft. mountain pass in Tibet. Then, we run through a few China stories that have been sitting on the backburner for awhile, followed by the final Pray for China of the year (Dec 29-Jan 4). Check out all the links/details below! Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast network (Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Send any questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! Also, I’m now on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which not only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Check out this past week’s bonus Christmas episode with my wife and daughter… Speaking of old episodes, I want to do a sort of Year-End Round Up of the episodes which received the most downloads (and which ones were listened to the least). And since I didn’t do this at the end of last year, I’ll also give the top and bottom three from 2024 (my first year): Top 3 Episodes from 2025: Dec 5: Doug Wilson Joins China Compass (2286) Sept 13: Charlie Kirk: “America Must Shape Up, or China Wins” (1745) Virtual Tie- Apr 20: Easter in a Chinese Church │"Ignorant Hillbilly" Vance Insults China's Peasants (1551) Virtual Tie- Aug 30: Are All Chinese Students Commies and Spies? (Deace Says Yea, I Say Nay) (1548) Bottom 3 Episodes from 2025: Jan 1: More Prostitutes or Pastors in China? / Near Death on New Year's (Prison Pulpit)(967) Feb 7: In the Face of a Secret Trial, What Will I Do? (Prison Pulpit)(952) July 24: Syrian Pastor/Family Massacred (They Shot Patients In Bed) (Prison Pulpit) (903) Top 3 Episodes from 2024: Aug 24: Tim Walz: China Asset? + Black Dragon River & Double Duck Mountain (1864) Aug 17: From Chinese Reality TV to NSA, Chatting with Brent in Moscow (ID) (1743) Sep 14: Millions of Unadoptable Babies + China's 3 Forbidden "Ts" (& Martyrs of Tianjin) (1680) Bottom 3 Episodes from 2024: 11-21: Wang Yi on God's Use of China's "Unrighteous Politics" (Prison Pulpit #5) (1077) 11-15: Wang Yi on God Raising Up and Deposing Dictators (Prison Pulpit #4) (1006) 12-5: Wang Yi's Pre-Arrest Family Newsletter (Prison Pulpit #7) (1005) Bonus: Top 3 States (TX, CA, VA + WA) & Nations (CA, UK, AU) (+ Bottom States (WY, RI, DE) (Obscure stats: Fiji, Vanuatu, Georgia, 100+ total, 16 in Africa, China=WY, Romania vs Bulgaria) 15 Years Ago This Week (Dec 29): Runaway Van in Tibet @ 14,000 Feet https://chinacall.substack.com/p/runaway-van-14700-feet Now Available on Amazon (+ free PDF): The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) Borden’s Missed Opportunity? Borden had a very fruitful ministry both at Yale and Princeton during his tenure as a student, and it strikes me that student ministry in China may have been a better use of his talents than what had been planned for him among the unreached Muslims of NW China. But hindsight is 20/20, and Borden never made it back to China at all (besides his first tour as a teenager). Campus ministry in China has been very fruitful for the past 40+ years, but has become much more difficult recently. Here’s a new article from within China that explains the current situation: Chinese Campus Ministry Troubles https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2025/12/changchun-reaching-campus/ No Tibetan in Chinese Schools https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/01/02/tibet-china-enforces-restrictions-students/ Chinese Refugee Church Planters? https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2024/12/immigrant-church-in-southeast-asia/ Is China Still a Developing Country? https://www.voanews.com/a/is-china-still-a-developing-country/7244652.html Taiwan Survives Another New Year Celebration https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/note-from-taiwan-the-players-on-the-eve-of-destruction/ Finally, let's take a look at this coming week's Pray for China (PrayforChina.us) cities… Dec 29-Jan 4: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-29-jan-4-2025 Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) and email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I've finally set up Patreon, but my favorite thing isn't the (potential) support, but the ability to create Collections of podcasts by topic, location, etc… There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to our China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

In this talk, Dharmasara relates the story of how Padmasambhava subdued the demons of Tibet to build Samye monastery. The monastery works as a symbol for a flourishing spiritual community which is not affected by the destructive forces in the world but instead puts them to the service of the Dharma. To subdue our own gods and demons, we have to become true individuals, and true individuals are what constitute the spiritual community. This talk was given during a young men's retreat held at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, as part of the series Entering the Realm of the Guru, 2022. *** Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone! Donate now: https://freebuddhistaudio.com/donate Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dharmabytes-from-free-buddhist-audio/id416832097 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4UHPDj01UH6ptj8FObwBfB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBuddhistAudio1967

After looking back at the most (and least) popular episodes from the past year or so, I share the story of almost dying when I lost my brakes (with five South African friends in tow) going down a 14,700 ft. mountain pass in Tibet. Then, we run through a few China stories that have been sitting on the backburner for awhile, followed by the final Pray for China of the year (Dec 29-Jan 4). Check out all the links/details below! Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast network (Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Send any questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! Also, I’m now on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which not only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Check out this past week’s bonus Christmas episode with my wife and daughter… Speaking of old episodes, I want to do a sort of Year-End Round Up of the episodes which received the most downloads (and which ones were listened to the least). And since I didn’t do this at the end of last year, I’ll also give the top and bottom three from 2024 (my first year): Top 3 Episodes from 2025: Dec 5: Doug Wilson Joins China Compass (2286) Sept 13: Charlie Kirk: “America Must Shape Up, or China Wins” (1745) Virtual Tie- Apr 20: Easter in a Chinese Church │"Ignorant Hillbilly" Vance Insults China's Peasants (1551) Virtual Tie- Aug 30: Are All Chinese Students Commies and Spies? (Deace Says Yea, I Say Nay) (1548) Bottom 3 Episodes from 2025: Jan 1: More Prostitutes or Pastors in China? / Near Death on New Year's (Prison Pulpit)(967) Feb 7: In the Face of a Secret Trial, What Will I Do? (Prison Pulpit)(952) July 24: Syrian Pastor/Family Massacred (They Shot Patients In Bed) (Prison Pulpit) (903) Top 3 Episodes from 2024: Aug 24: Tim Walz: China Asset? + Black Dragon River & Double Duck Mountain (1864) Aug 17: From Chinese Reality TV to NSA, Chatting with Brent in Moscow (ID) (1743) Sep 14: Millions of Unadoptable Babies + China's 3 Forbidden "Ts" (& Martyrs of Tianjin) (1680) Bottom 3 Episodes from 2024: 11-21: Wang Yi on God's Use of China's "Unrighteous Politics" (Prison Pulpit #5) (1077) 11-15: Wang Yi on God Raising Up and Deposing Dictators (Prison Pulpit #4) (1006) 12-5: Wang Yi's Pre-Arrest Family Newsletter (Prison Pulpit #7) (1005) Bonus: Top 3 States (TX, CA, VA + WA) & Nations (CA, UK, AU) (+ Bottom States (WY, RI, DE) (Obscure stats: Fiji, Vanuatu, Georgia, 100+ total, 16 in Africa, China=WY, Romania vs Bulgaria) 15 Years Ago This Week (Dec 29): Runaway Van in Tibet @ 14,000 Feet https://chinacall.substack.com/p/runaway-van-14700-feet Now Available on Amazon (+ free PDF): The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) Borden’s Missed Opportunity? Borden had a very fruitful ministry both at Yale and Princeton during his tenure as a student, and it strikes me that student ministry in China may have been a better use of his talents than what had been planned for him among the unreached Muslims of NW China. But hindsight is 20/20, and Borden never made it back to China at all (besides his first tour as a teenager). Campus ministry in China has been very fruitful for the past 40+ years, but has become much more difficult recently. Here’s a new article from within China that explains the current situation: Chinese Campus Ministry Troubles https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2025/12/changchun-reaching-campus/ No Tibetan in Chinese Schools https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/01/02/tibet-china-enforces-restrictions-students/ Chinese Refugee Church Planters? https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2024/12/immigrant-church-in-southeast-asia/ Is China Still a Developing Country? https://www.voanews.com/a/is-china-still-a-developing-country/7244652.html Taiwan Survives Another New Year Celebration https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/note-from-taiwan-the-players-on-the-eve-of-destruction/ Finally, let's take a look at this coming week's Pray for China (PrayforChina.us) cities… Dec 29-Jan 4: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-29-jan-4-2025 Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) and email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I've finally set up Patreon, but my favorite thing isn't the (potential) support, but the ability to create Collections of podcasts by topic, location, etc… There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to our China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

"The ultimate research laboratory is this mind, body, brain, heart."A privilege to introduce Philippe Goldin, PhD – Professor at UC Davis, mindfulness researcher, and a true bridge between science and spirituality.Join us for a delightful and mind-stretching conversation. Philippe's path spans New York City, a deep study of Tibetan Buddhism across India, Nepal, and Tibet, and groundbreaking research in psychology and neuroscience. Today, we explore consciousness, meditation, ethics, intentionality, and how science and spirituality can inform and enhance each other.Philippe also shares his insights on interpersonal neurobiology, empathy, awakening, and how our intentions ripple through the world - plus fascinating stories of translating for Tibetan Lamas, developing global mindfulness programs with Google and Stanford, and pioneering approaches to mental health, workplace wellness, and climate resilience.Key Takeaways:➖ How meditation and science intersect➖ Consciousness, dark matter, and the unseen➖ Ethics and intentionality in practice➖ The ripple effects of empathy and human connection➖ Lifelong curiosity and learning is essentialI absolutely loved listening to Philippe's unique perspective and highly developed expression on science, psychology, and spirituality. I'm sure it will leave you inspired, curious, and maybe even a little mind-blown

Merry Christmas from China Compass! After a few minutes to talk about The Millionaire Missionary's Last Christmas, my wife and youngest daughter join me to (mostly) talk about Christmas overseas, but also hit the following topics (and more)... Eating Chinese fish (or not) Internet Cafes on Christmas Eve Chinese Christian Christmas Talent Show Christmases long ago, including our first in China I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Also, I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which not only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Send any questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! Now Available on Amazon (+ free PDF): The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) The Millionaire Missionary's Last Christmas The Millionaire Missionary, William Borden, of all people(!) could have stayed home an extra week to be with his family (his mother!) for Christmas. But he boarded his ship in New York on December 17th, determined to land in Egypt by New Year’s Day to begin his life overseas. https://chinacall.substack.com/p/a-mothers-final-farewell-part-i https://chinacall.substack.com/p/mothers-final-farewell-part-ii Kevin Belmonte’s biography of William Borden, Beacon-Light, which mostly borrows from early Borden biographies by close friends, as well as Mary Taylor’s Borden of Yale (the unabridged version of The Millionaire Missionary), provides a few more details from the trip (pgs 227-230). Christmas for Missionaries https://mailchi.mp/radiusinternational/was-the-great-commission-only-for-the-original-apostles-9217919?e=baba53761c As an adult, I’ve spent far more Christmases overseas than at home. Looking back, there is some sadness in what I missed, especially with loved ones who have since passed away. But there are no true regrets. And there are many happy memories, especially when God provided for loved ones to visit us and spend Christmas (or Thanksgiving) with us on the mission field! Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I've finally set up Patreon, but my favorite thing isn't the (potential) support. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to our China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

ཉིན་ ༩༠ ཡི་བོད་དོན་སྦག་སྦག་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་གནང་མཁན་ཞིག་ལ་བརྡབ་སྐྱོན་རྐྱེན་པས་ལས་འགུལ་མཚམས་འཇོག་གནང་འདུག The post ཉིན་ ༩༠ ཡི་བོད་དོན་སྦག་སྦག་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་གནང་མཁན་ཞིག་ལ་བརྡབ་སྐྱོན་རྐྱེན་པས་ལས་འགུལ་མཚམས་འཇོག་གནང་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Merry Christmas from China Compass! After a few minutes to talk about The Millionaire Missionary's Last Christmas, my wife and youngest daughter join me to (mostly) talk about Christmas overseas, but also hit the following topics (and more)... Eating Chinese fish (or not) Internet Cafes on Christmas Eve Chinese Christian Christmas Talent Show Christmases long ago, including our first in China I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Also, I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which not only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Send any questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! Now Available on Amazon (+ free PDF): The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) The Millionaire Missionary's Last Christmas The Millionaire Missionary, William Borden, of all people(!) could have stayed home an extra week to be with his family (his mother!) for Christmas. But he boarded his ship in New York on December 17th, determined to land in Egypt by New Year’s Day to begin his life overseas. https://chinacall.substack.com/p/a-mothers-final-farewell-part-i https://chinacall.substack.com/p/mothers-final-farewell-part-ii Kevin Belmonte’s biography of William Borden, Beacon-Light, which mostly borrows from early Borden biographies by close friends, as well as Mary Taylor’s Borden of Yale (the unabridged version of The Millionaire Missionary), provides a few more details from the trip (pgs 227-230). Christmas for Missionaries https://mailchi.mp/radiusinternational/was-the-great-commission-only-for-the-original-apostles-9217919?e=baba53761c As an adult, I’ve spent far more Christmases overseas than at home. Looking back, there is some sadness in what I missed, especially with loved ones who have since passed away. But there are no true regrets. And there are many happy memories, especially when God provided for loved ones to visit us and spend Christmas (or Thanksgiving) with us on the mission field! Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I've finally set up Patreon, but my favorite thing isn't the (potential) support. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to our China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

Christmas in Room Number Four: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/christmas-in-room-number-four-the Just as we did on Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, today I want to read a special story from Richard Wurmband’s book In God's Underground (https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/IGU-english.pdf). Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network (and the Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every single day. Please send any questions or comments to a new, secure email: chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be found at PrayGiveGo.us! One last thing: I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which now only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to go back and find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Now Available: The Millionaire Missionary (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G94FKJJW/) For those who aren’t familiar with Richard Wurmband, here's a brief intro: Lutheran minister in Romania. 14 years in prison, including 3 in solitary confinement. After “escaping” abroad, published ”Tortured for Christ" in the 60s and testified to Congress. Founded Voice of the Martyrs with his son, but Michael Wurmbrand doesn’t trust VOM today. Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM letter: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html Free books (PDF) by Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/ Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to support our China ministry. For everything else, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”! Feliz Navidad

འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ནང་ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་གནས་སྟངས་སྐོར་གོ་རྟོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འདུག The post འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ནང་ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་གནས་སྟངས་སྐོར་གོ་རྟོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Christmas in Room Number Four: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/christmas-in-room-number-four-the Just as we did on Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, today I want to read a special story from Richard Wurmband’s book In God's Underground (https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/IGU-english.pdf). Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network (and the Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every single day. Please send any questions or comments to a new, secure email: chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be found at PrayGiveGo.us! One last thing: I’m now set up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/chinacompass), which now only allows for donations, but also lets me sort podcast episodes into various collections, making it easier to go back and find all the episodes on a certain topic or region, like Tibet, North Korea, or Hong Kong. Now Available: The Millionaire Missionary (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G94FKJJW/) For those who aren’t familiar with Richard Wurmband, here's a brief intro: Lutheran minister in Romania. 14 years in prison, including 3 in solitary confinement. After “escaping” abroad, published ”Tortured for Christ" in the 60s and testified to Congress. Founded Voice of the Martyrs with his son, but Michael Wurmbrand doesn’t trust VOM today. Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM letter: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html Free books (PDF) by Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/ Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to support our China ministry. For everything else, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”! Feliz Navidad

བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་གིས་ཀར་ནཱ་ཊ་ཀ་མངའ་སྡེའི་ནང་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་མཆོག་དང་མཇལ་འཕྲད་གནང་འདུག The post འོས་བསྡུ་དེབ་འགོད་གནང་མཁན་གྲངས་ ༩༡,༠༤༢  བྱུང་བ་དང་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་འོས་མིར་བཞེངས་མཁན་ཞིག་གི་གདམ་བྱ་འདེམས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་ཐང་འཕྲོག་པ། appeared first on vot.

Kolkata རྒྱང་རྒྱུགས་ཁྲོད་བོད་པའི་བུད་མེད་གཅིག་ལ་ཨང་རིམ་དང་པོ་དང་ Guangzhou རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་རྒྱང་རྒྱུགས་ནང་བོད་པའི་སྐྱེས་པ་ཞིག་ལ་ཨང་རིམ་གསུམ་པ་ཐོབ་འདུག The post Kolkata རྒྱང་རྒྱུགས་ཁྲོད་བོད་པའི་བུད་མེད་གཅིག་ལ་ཨང་རིམ་དང་པོ་དང་ Guangzhou རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་རྒྱང་རྒྱུགས་ནང་བོད་པའི་སྐྱེས་པ་ཞིག་ལ་ཨང་རིམ་གསུམ་པ་ཐོབ་འདུག appeared first on vot.

ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་ཛ་དྲག་གནས་སྟངས་ཐད་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་བསྒྲགས་གཏམ་དང་ངོ་རྒོལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བ། The post ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་ཛ་དྲག་གནས་སྟངས་ཐད་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་བསྒྲགས་གཏམ་དང་ངོ་རྒོལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བ། appeared first on vot.

The Millionaire Missionary is now available on Amazon! (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G94FKJJW/) Today's episode takes another long look at the life and times of Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's most famous pro-democracy advocate, who is facing life in prison by the Chinese regime that he dared to criticize. (Also, the UK get's critiqued for not only doing nothing for Jimmy Lai, but instigating on British soil similar attacks against free speech!) We also take a deep look at a couple of spiritually needy areas in China, the special administrative regions of Tibet and Inner Mongolia, respectively. Pray for China (Dec 22-28): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-22-28-2025 Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network (Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Send your questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! China Executes Former Senior Banker For Taking $156 Million In Bribes https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2025/12/1333334/china-executes-former-senior-banker-taking-us156m-bribes#google_vignette Hong Kong Mogul Jimmy Lai Convicted by Pro-CCP Kangaroo Court Last year's Jimmy Lai episode: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/49 Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was convicted in a landmark trial seen by critics as a symbol of the financial hub's deteriorating freedoms. Found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the National Security Law that China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, and of publishing seditious materials through his now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, Lai denied all charges, and faces the possibility of a life sentence. Now, Britain should be ashamed for doing nothing to stand up for one of its own citizens being bullied by Beijing. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/jimmy-lai-a-hong-kong-rags-to-riches-media-tycoon-who-became-fierce-critic-of-beijing/article70397910.ece https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/hong-kongs-legal-clampdown-on-jimmy-lai-tycoon-and-china-critic https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-found-guilty-of-sedition-foreign-collusion https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/reaction-to-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lais-guilty-verdict-in-national-security-trial https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/hong-kong-authoritarianism-hides-behind-legalistic-facade/ Let's take a look at this coming week's Pray for China (PrayforChina.us) cities… Pray for China (Dec 22-28): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-22-28-2025 Here’s the full interview with Denny, who tells the story about being chased all around Alashan in Inner Mongolia: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/12 Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I’m working on getting set up for sponsorships at Ko-Fi & Patreon. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to support the China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

The Millionaire Missionary is now available on Amazon! (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G94FKJJW/) Today's episode takes another long look at the life and times of Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's most famous pro-democracy advocate, who is facing life in prison by the Chinese regime that he dared to criticize. (Also, the UK get's critiqued for not only doing nothing for Jimmy Lai, but instigating on British soil similar attacks against free speech!) We also take a deep look at a couple of spiritually needy areas in China, the special administrative regions of Tibet and Inner Mongolia, respectively. Pray for China (Dec 22-28): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-22-28-2025 Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network (Christian Podcast Community)! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I present a new Chinese city or county to pray for every day. Send your questions or comments to chinacompass@privacyport.com. Everything else can be easily found at PrayGiveGo.us! China Executes Former Senior Banker For Taking $156 Million In Bribes https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2025/12/1333334/china-executes-former-senior-banker-taking-us156m-bribes#google_vignette Hong Kong Mogul Jimmy Lai Convicted by Pro-CCP Kangaroo Court Last year's Jimmy Lai episode: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/49 Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was convicted in a landmark trial seen by critics as a symbol of the financial hub's deteriorating freedoms. Found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the National Security Law that China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, and of publishing seditious materials through his now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, Lai denied all charges, and faces the possibility of a life sentence. Now, Britain should be ashamed for doing nothing to stand up for one of its own citizens being bullied by Beijing. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/jimmy-lai-a-hong-kong-rags-to-riches-media-tycoon-who-became-fierce-critic-of-beijing/article70397910.ece https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/hong-kongs-legal-clampdown-on-jimmy-lai-tycoon-and-china-critic https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-found-guilty-of-sedition-foreign-collusion https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/reaction-to-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lais-guilty-verdict-in-national-security-trial https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/hong-kong-authoritarianism-hides-behind-legalistic-facade/ Let's take a look at this coming week's Pray for China (PrayforChina.us) cities… Pray for China (Dec 22-28): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-dec-22-28-2025 Here’s the full interview with Denny, who tells the story about being chased all around Alashan in Inner Mongolia: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/12 Thank you for listening! Subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Don’t forget to follow me on X (@chinaadventures) or email chinacompass@privacyport.com with any questions or comments. Also, I’m working on getting set up for sponsorships at Ko-Fi & Patreon. There’s also a Paypal link at PrayforChina.us if you’d like to give to support the China ministry. Last but not least, for (almost) everything else we’re doing visit PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, vs 2: the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, therefore ask the Lord for more. Talk again soon!

ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་ཛ་དྲག་གནས་སྟངས་ཐད་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་འདྲ་མིན་གསུམ་སྤེལ་སོང་། The post ཁམས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་ཛ་དྲག་གནས་སྟངས་ཐད་རྒྱ་གཞུང་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་འདྲ་མིན་གསུམ་སྤེལ་སོང་། appeared first on vot.

In today's chinese podcast, we interview a Chinese language teacher who chose an unconventional path. She left a stable job behind in China, set out on her own, and even rode a motorcycle across Tibet. This is a true story about courage, freedom, and listening to your inner voice. If you're curious about life beyond comfort zones, this journey may inspire you.

རཀ་ར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་དར་བཀྲས་མཐོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསུང་འབུམ་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་གིས་དེབ་ཕྲེང་ ༡༧ དབུ་འབྱེད། The post རཀ་ར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་དར་བཀྲས་མཐོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསུང་འབུམ་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་གིས་དེབ་ཕྲེང་ ༡༧ དབུ་འབྱེད། appeared first on vot.

བོད་ལ་འཆད་རྩོད་རྩོམ་གསུམ་གྱི་སློབ་གཉེར་གནང་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་པ་བཀའ་སྩལ། The post བོད་ལ་འཆད་རྩོད་རྩོམ་གསུམ་གྱི་སློབ་གཉེར་གནང་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་པ་བཀའ་སྩལ། appeared first on vot.

སན་ཌེ་ཤི་མེ་ཤི་རམ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གར་བྱང་ཤར་ཁུལ་དུ་བོད་དོན་རྐང་འཁོར་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བཞིན་པ། The post སན་ཌེ་ཤི་མེ་ཤི་རམ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གར་བྱང་ཤར་ཁུལ་དུ་བོད་དོན་རྐང་འཁོར་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་བཞིན་པ། appeared first on vot.

The last time Yamato was heavily involved on the continent, they were defeated militarily, and they returned to fortify their islands.  So how are things looking, now? This episode we will talk about some of what has been going on with Tang and Silla, but also touch on the Mishihase, the Hayato, the people of Tamna and Tanegashima, and more! For more information and references, check out:  https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-140   Rough Transcript   Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is episode 140: Improving Diplomatic Ties Garyang Jyeongsan and Gim Hongsye looked out from the deck of their ship, tossing and turning in the sea.  The waves were high, and the winds lashed at the ship, which rocked uncomfortably beneath their feet.  Ocean spray struck them from below while rain pelted from above. Through the torrential and unstable conditions, they looked out for their sister ship.  It was their job to escort them, but in these rough seas, bobbing up and down, they were at the mercy of the elements.  One minute they could see them, and then next it was nothing but a wall of water.  Each time they caught a glimpse the other ship seemed further and further away.  They tried calling out, but it was no use—even if they could normally have raised them, the fierce winds simply carried their voices out into the watery void.  Eventually, they lost sight of them altogether. When the winds died down and the seas settled, they looked for their companions, but they saw nothing, not even hints of wreckage on the ocean.  They could only hope that their fellow pilots knew where they were going.  As long as they could still sail, they should be able to make it to land—either to the islands  to which they were headed, or back to the safety of the peninsula. And so the escort ship continued on, even without a formal envoy to escort.  They would hope for the best, or else they would explain what would happen,  and hope that the Yamato court would understand. The seas were anything but predictable, and diplomacy was certainly not for the faint of heart.   We are going through the period of the reign of Ohoama, aka Temmu Tennou.  It started in 672, with the death of his brother, Naka no Oe, remembered as the sovereign Tenji Tenno, when Temmu took the throne from his nephew, Ohotomo, aka Kobun Tenno, in what would become known as the Jinshin no Ran.  From that point, Ohoama continued the work of his brother in creating a government based on a continental model of laws and punishments—the Ritsuryo system.  He accomplished this with assistance from his wife, Uno, and other members of the royal family—his own sons, but also nephews and other princes of the time.  And so far most of our focus has been on the local goings on within the archipelago. However, there was still plenty going on in the rest of the world, and though Yamato's focus may have been on more local affairs, it was still engaged with the rest of the world—or at least with the polities of the Korean Peninsula and the Tang Dynasty.  This episode we are going to look at Yamato's foreign relations, and how they were changing, especially as things changed on the continent. Up to this point, much of what had been happening in Yamato had been heavily influenced by the mainland in one way or another.  And to begin our discussion, we really should backtrack a bit—all the way to the Battle of Baekgang in 663, which we discussed in Episode 124.  That defeat would lead to the fall of Baekje, at the hands of the Silla-Tang alliance.  The loss of their ally on the peninsula sent Yamato into a flurry of defensive activity.  They erected fortresses on Tsushima, Kyushu, and along the Seto Inland Sea.  They also moved the capital up to Ohotsu, a more easily defended point on the shores of Lake Biwa, and likewise reinforced various strategic points in the Home Provinces as well.  These fortresses were built in the style and under the direction of many of the Baekje refugees now resettled in Yamato. For years, the archipelago braced for an invasion by the Silla-Tang alliance.  After all, with all that Yamato had done to support Baekje, it only made sense, from their perspective, for Silla and Tang to next come after them.  Sure, there was still Goguryeo, but with the death of Yeon Gaesomun, Goguryeo would not last that long.  With a unified peninsula, then why wouldn't they next look to the archipelago? And yet, the attack never came.  While Yamato was building up its defenses, it seems that the alliance between Silla and Tang was not quite as strong as their victories on the battlefield may have made it seem.  This is hardly surprising—the Tang and Silla were hardly operating on the same scale.  That said, the Tang's immense size, while bringing it great resources, also meant that it had an extremely large border to defend.  They often utilized alliances with other states to achieve their ends.  In fact, it seems fairly common for the Tang to seek alliances with states just beyond their borders against those states that were directly on their borders.  In other words, they would effectively create a pincer maneuver by befriending the enemy of their enemy.  Of course.  Once they had defeated said enemy well, wouldn't you know it, their former ally was now their newest bordering state. In the case of the Silla-Tang alliance, it appears that at the start of the alliance, back in the days of Tang Taizong, the agreement, at least from Silla's perspective, was that they would help each other against Goguryeo and Baekje, and then the Tang dynasty would leave the Korean peninsula to Silla.  However, things didn't go quite that smoothly.  The fighting against Goguryeo and Baekje can be traced back to the 640s, but Tang Taizong passed away in 649, leaving the throne to his heir, Tang Gaozong.  The Tang forces eventually helped Silla to take Baekje after the battle of Baekgang River in 663, and then Goguryeo fell in 668, but the Tang forces didn't leave the peninsula.  They remained in the former territories of Baekje and in Goguryeo, despite any former agreements.  Ostensibly they were no doubt pointing to the continuing revolts and rebellions in both regions.  While neither kingdom would fully reassert itself, it didn't mean that there weren't those who were trying.  In fact, the first revolt in Goguryeo was in 669.  There was also a revolt each year until 673.  The last one had some staying power, as the Goguryeo rebels continued to hold out for about four years. It is probably worth reminding ourselves that the Tang dynasty, during this time, had reached out on several occasions to Yamato, sending diplomatic missions, as had Silla.  While the Yamato court may have been preparing for a Tang invasion, the Tang perspective seems different.  They were preoccupied with the various revolts going on, and they had other problems.  On their western border, they were having to contend with the kingdom of Tibet, for example.  The Tibetan kingdom had a powerful influence on the southern route around the Taklamakan desert, which abuts the Tibetan plateau.   The Tang court would have had to divert resources to defend their holdings in the western regions, and it is unlikely that they had any immediate designs on the archipelago, which I suspect was considered something of a backwater to them, at the time.  In fact, Yamato would have been much more useful to the Tang as an ally to help maintain some pressure against Silla, with whom their relationship, no longer directed at a common enemy, was becoming somewhat tense. In fact, just before Ohoama came to the throne, several events had occurred that would affect the Silla-Tang alliance. The first event is more indirect—in 670, the Tibetan kingdom attacked the Tang empire.  The fighting was intense, and required serious resources from both sides.  Eventually the Tibetan forces were victorious, but not without a heavy toll on the Tibetan kingdom, which some attribute to the latter's eventual demise.  Their pyrrhic victory, however, was a defeat for the Tang, who also lost troops and resources in the fighting.  Then, in 671, the Tang empire would suffer another loss as Silla would drive the Tang forces out of the territory of the former kingdom of Baekje. With the Baekje territory under their control, it appears that Silla was also working to encourage some of rebellions in Goguryeo.  This more than irked the Tang court, currently under the formal control of Tang Gaozong and the informal—but quite considerable—control of his wife, Wu Zetian, who some claim was the one actually calling most of the shots in the court at this point in time.  Silla encouragement of restoration efforts in Goguryeo reached the Tang court in 674, in and in 675 we see that the Tang forces were sent to take back their foothold in the former Baekje territory.  Tang defeated Silla at Gyeonggi, and Silla's king, Munmu, sent a tribute mission to the Tang court, apologizing for their past behavior. However, the Tang control could not be maintained, as they had to once again withdraw most of their troops from the peninsula to send them against the Tibetan kingdom once more.  As soon as they did so, Silla once again renewed their attacks on Tang forces on the peninsula.  And so, a year later, in 676, the Tang forces were back.  They crossed the Yellow Sea to try and take back the Tang territories on the lower peninsula, but they were unsuccessful.  Tang forces were defeated by Silla at Maeso Fortress in modern day Yeoncheon.  After a bit more fighting, Silla ended up in control of all territory south of the Taedong River, which runs through Pyongyang, one of the ancient capitals of Goguryeo and the capital of modern North Korea.  This meant that the Tang dynasty still held much of the territory of Goguryeo under their control. With everything that was going on, perhaps that explains some of the apparently defensive measures that Yamato continued to take.  For example, the second lunar month of 675, we know that Ohoama proceeded to Takayasu castle, likely as a kind of formal inspection.  Then, in the 10th lunar month of 675 Ohoama commanded that everyone from the Princes down to the lowest rank were to provide the government with weapons.  A year later, in the 9th month of 676, the Princes and Ministers sent agents to the capital and the Home Provinces and gave out weapons to each man.  Similar edicts would be issued throughout the reign.  So in 679 the court announced that in two years time, which is to say the year 681, there would be a review of the weapons and horses belonging to the Princes of the Blood, Ministers, and any public functionaries.  And in that same year, barrier were erected for the first time on Mt. Tatsta and Mt. Afusaka, along with an outer line of fortifications at Naniwa. While some of that no doubt also helped to control internal movements, it also would have been useful to prepare for the possibility of future invasions.  And the work continued.  In 683  we see a royal command to all of the various provinces to engage in military training.  And in 684 it was decreed at that there would be an inspection in the 9th month of the following year—685—and they laid out the ceremonial rules, such as who would stand where, what the official clothing was to look like, etc.  Furthermore, there was also an edict that all civil and military officials should practice the use of arms and riding horses.  They were expected to supply their own horses, weapons, and anything they would wear into battle. If they owned horses, they would be considered cavalry soldiers, while those who did not have their own horse would be trained as infantry.  Either way, they would each receive training, and the court was determined to remove any obstacles and excuses that might arise.   Anyone who didn't comply would be punished.  Non compliance could mean refusing to train, but it could also just mean that they did not provide the proper horses or equipment, or they let their equipment fall into a state of disrepair.  Punishments could range from fines to outright flogging, should they be found guilty.  On the other hand, those who practiced well would have any punishments against them for other crimes reduced by two degrees, even if it was for a capital crime.  This only applied to previous crimes, however—if it seemed like you were trying to take advantage of this as a loophole to be able to get away with doing your own thing than the pardon itself would be considered null and void. A year later, the aforementioned inspection was carried out by Princes Miyatokoro, Hirose, Naniwa, Takeda, and Mino.  Two months later, the court issued another edict demanding that military equipment—specifically objects such as large or small horns, drums, flutes, flags, large bows, or catapults—should be stored at the government district house and not kept in private arsenals.  The "large bow" in this case may be something like a ballista, though Aston translates it to crossbow—unfortunately, it isn't exactly clear, and we don't necessarily have a plethora of extant examples to point to regarding what they meant.  Still, these seem to be focused on things that would be used by armies—especially the banners, large bows, and catapults.  The musical instruments may seem odd, though music was often an important part of Tang dynasty military maneuvers.  It was used to coordinate troops, raise morale, provide a marching rhythm, and more.  Granted, much of this feels like something more continental, and it is unclear if music was regularly used in the archipelago.  This could be more of Yamato trying to emulate the Tang dynasty rather than something that was commonplace on the archipelago.  That might also explain the reference to the Ohoyumi and the catapults, or rock throwers. All of this language having to do with military preparations could just be more of the same as far as the Sinicization of the Yamato government is concerned; attempts to further emulate what they understood of the civilized governments on the mainland—or at least their conception of those governments based on the various written works that they had imported.  Still, I think it is relevant that there was a lot of uncertainty regarding the position of various polities and the potential for conflict.  Each year could bring new changes to the political dynamic that could see military intervention make its way across the straits.  And of course, there was always the possibility that Yamato itself might decide to raise a force of its own. Throughout all of this, there was continued contact with the peninsula and other lands.  Of course, Silla and Goguryeo were both represented when Ohoama came to the throne—though only the Silla ambassador made it to the ceremony, apparently.  In the 7th lunar month of 675, Ohotomo no Muraji no Kunimaro was sent to Silla as the Chief envoy, along with Miyake no Kishi no Irishi.  They likely got a chance to witness first-hand the tensions between Silla and the Tang court.  The mission would return in the second lunar month of the following year, 676.  Eight months later, Mononobe no Muarji no Maro and Yamashiro no Atahe no Momotari were both sent.  That embassy also returned in the 2nd lunar month of the following year. Meanwhile, it wasn't just Yamato traveling to Silla—there were also envoys coming the other way.  For example, in the 2nd lunar month of 675 we are told that Silla sent Prince Chyungweon as an ambassador.  His retinue was apparently detained on Tsukushi while the actual envoy team went on to the Yamato capital.  It took them about two months to get there, and then they stayed until the 8th lunar month, so about four months in total. At the same time, in the third month, Goguryeo and Silla both sent "tribute" to Yamato.  And in the 8th month, Prince Kumaki, from Tamna, arrived at Tsukushi as well.  Tamna, as you may recall, refers to nation on the island known today as Jeju.  The late Alexander Vovin suggested that the name originated from a proto-Japonic cognate with "Tanimura", and many of the names seem to also bear out a possible Japonic influence on the island nation. Although they only somewhat recently show up in the Chronicles from our perspective, archaeological evidence suggests that they had trade with Yayoi Japan and Baekje since at least the first century.  With the fall of Baekje, and the expansion of Yamato authority to more of the archipelago, we've seen a notable uptick in the communication between Tamna and Yamato noted in the record.  A month after the arrival of Prince Kumaki in Tsukushi, aka Kyushu, it is noted that a Prince Koyo of Tamna arrived at Naniwa.  The Tamna guests would stick around for almost a year, during which time they were presented with a ship and eventually returned in the 7th lunar month of the following year, 676.   Tamna envoys, who had also shown up in 673, continued to be an annual presence at the Yamato court through the year 679, after which there is an apparent break in contact, picking back up in 684 and 685. 676 also saw a continuation of Silla representatives coming to the Yamato court, arriving in the 11th lunar month.  That means they probably passed by the Yamato envoys heading the other way.  Silla, under King Mumnu, now had complete control of the Korean peninsula south of the Taedong river.  In the same month we also see another mission from Goguryeo, but the Chronicle also points out that the Goguryeo envoys had a Silla escort, indicating the alliance between Silla and those attempting to restore Goguryeo—or at least the area of Goguryeo under Tang control.  The Tang, for their part, had pulled back their commandary to Liaodong, just west of the modern border between China and North Korea, today.  Goguryeo would not go quietly, and the people of that ancient kingdom—one of the oldest on the peninsula—would continue to rise up and assert their independence for years to come. The chronicles also record envoys from the somewhat mysterious northern Mishihase, or Sushen, thought to be people of the Okhotsk Sea culture from the Sakhalin islands.  There were 11 of them, and they came with the Silla envoys, possibly indicating their influence on the continent and through the Amur river region.  Previously, most of the contact had been through the regions of Koshi and the Emishi in modern Tohoku and Hokkaido.  This seems to be their only major envoy to the Yamato court recorded in this reign. Speaking of outside groups, in the 2nd lunar month of 677 we are told that there was an entertainment given to men of Tanegashima under the famous Tsuki tree west of Asukadera.  Many people may know Tanegashima from the role it played in the Sengoku Period, when Europeans made contact and Tanegashima became a major hub of Sengoku era firearm manufacturing.  At this point, however, it seems that it was still a largely independent island in the archipelago off the southern coast of Kyushu.  Even southern Kyushu appears to have retained some significant cultural differences at this time, with the "Hayato" people being referenced in regards to southern Kyushu—we'll talk about them in a bit as they showed up at the capital in 682.  Tanegashima is actually closer to Yakushima, another island considered to be separate, culturally, from Yamato, and could be considered the start of the chain of islands leading south to Amami Ohoshima and the other Ryukyuan islands.  That said, Tanegashima and Yakushima are much closer to the main islands of the archipelago and show considerable influence, including Yayoi and Kofun cultural artifacts, connecting them more closely to those cultures, even if Yamato initially saw them as distinct in some way. A formal Yamato envoy would head down to Tanegashima two years later, in the 11th lunar month of 679.  It was headed up by Yamato no Umakahibe no Miyatsuko no Tsura and Kami no Sukuri no Koukan.  The next reference to the mission comes in 681, when the envoys returned and presented a map of the island.  They claimed that it was in the middle of the ocean, and that rice was always abundant. With a single sowing of rice it was said that they could get two harvests.  Other products specifically mentioned were cape jasmine and bulrushes, though they then note that there were also many other products that they didn't bother to list.  This must have been considered quite the success, as the Yamato envoys were each awarded a grade of rank for their efforts.   They also appear to have returned with some of the locals, as they were entertained again in Asuka—this time on the riverbank west of Asukadera, where various kinds of music were performed for them. Tanegashima and Yakushima would be brought formally under Yamato hegemony in 702 with the creation of Tane province, but for now it was still considered separate.  This was probably just the first part of the efforts to bring them into Yamato, proper. Getting back to the Silla envoys who had arrived in 676, they appear to have remained for several months.  In the third lunar month of 677 we are told that they, along with guests of lower rank—thirteen persons all told—were invited to the capital.  Meanwhile, the escort envoys and others who had not been invited to the capital were entertained in Tsukushi and returned from there. While this was going on, weather out in the straits drove a Silla boat to the island of Chikashima.  Aboard was a Silla man accompanined by three attendants and three Buddhist priests.  We aren't told where they were going, but they were given shelter and when the Silla envoy, Kim Chyeonpyeong, returned home he left with those who had been driven ashore, as well. The following year, 678, was not a great one for the Silla envoys.  Garyang Jyeongsan and Gim Hongsye arrived at Tsukushi, but they were just the escorts.  The actual envoys had been separated by a storm at sea and never arrived.  In their place, the escort envoys were sent to the capital, probably to at least carry through with the rituals of diplomacy.  This was in the first month of the following year, 679, and given when envoys had previously arrived, it suggests to me that they waited a few months, probably to see if the envoys' ship eventually appeared and to give the court time to figure out what to do.  A month later, the Goguryeo envoys arrived, still being accompanied by Silla escorts, also arrived. Fortunately the Yamato envoys to Silla and elsewhere fared better.  That year, 679, the envoys returned successfully from Silla, Goguryeo, and Tamna.  Overall, though, I think it demonstrates that this wasn't just a pleasure cruise.  There was a very real possibility that one could get lost at sea.  At the same time, one needed people of sufficient status to be able to carry diplomatic messages and appropriately represent the court in foreign lands.  We often seen envoys later taking on greater positions of responsibility in the court, and so you didn't have to go far to find those willing to take the risk for later rewards. That same year, another tribute mission from Silla did manage to make the crossing successfully.  And in this mission we are given more details, for they brought gold, silver, iron, sacrificial cauldrons with three feet, brocade, cloth, hides, horses, dogs, mules, and camels.  And those were just the official gifts to the court.  Silla also sent distinct presents for the sovereign, the queen, and the crown prince, namely gold, silver, swords, flags, and things of that nature. This appears to demonstrate increasingly close ties between Silla and Yamato. All of that arrived in the 10th lunar month of 679, and they stayed through the 6th lunar month of 680—about 7 to 9 months all told, depending on if there were any intercalary months that year.  In addition to entertaining the Silla envoys in Tsukushi—it is not mentioned if they made it to the capital—we are also told that in the 2nd lunar month, halfway through the envoys' visit, eight labourers from Silla were sent back to their own country with gifts appropriate to their station. Here I have to pause and wonder what exactly is meant by this.  "Labourer" seems somewhat innocuous.  I suspect that their presence in Yamato may have been less than voluntary, and I wonder if these were captured prisoners of war who could have been in Yamato now for over a decade.  If so, this could have been a gesture indicating that the two sides were putting all of that nastiness with Baekje behind them, and Yamato was accepting Silla's new role on the peninsula.  Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it does seem to imply that Silla and Yamato were growing closer, something that Yamato would need if it wanted to have easy access, again, to the wider world. Speaking of returning people, that seems to have been something of a common thread for this year, 680, as another mission from Goguryeo saw 19 Goguryeo men also returned to their country.  These were condolence envoys who had come to mourn the death of Takara Hime—aka Saimei Tennou.  They must have arrived in the midst of all that was happening peninsula, and as such they were detained.  Their detention is somewhat interesting, when you think about it, since technically Baekje and Goguryeo—and thus Yamato—would have been on the same side against the Silla-Tang alliance.  But perhaps it was just considered too dangerous to send them home, initially, and then the Tang had taken control of their home.  It is unclear to me how much they were being held by Yamato and how much they were just men without a country for a time.  This may reflect how things on the mainland were stabilizing again, at least from Yamato's perspective.  However, as we'll discuss a bit later, it may have also been another attempt at restoring the Goguryeo kingdom by bringing back refugees, especially if they had connections with the old court.  The Goguryeo envoys—both the recent mission and those who had been detained—would remain until the 5th lunar month of 681, when they finally took their leave.  That year, there were numerous mission both from and to Silla and Goguryeo, and in the latter part of the year, Gim Chyungpyeong came once again, once more bearing gives of gold, silver, copper, iron, brocade, thin silk, deerskins, and fine cloth.  They also brought gold, silver, flags of a rosy-colored brocade and skins for the sovereign, his queen, and the crown prince. That said, the 681 envoys also brought grave news:  King Munmu of Silla was dead.  Munmu had reigned since 661, so he had overseen the conquest of Silla and Goguryeo.  His regnal name in Japanese might be read as Monmu, or even "Bunbu", referencing the blending of literary and cultural achievements seen as the pinnacle of noble attainment.  He is known as Munmu the Great for unifying the peninsula under a single ruler—though much of the Goguryeo territory was still out of reach.  Indeed he saw warfare and the betterment of his people, and it is no doubt significant that his death is recorded in the official records of the archipelago.   He was succeeded by his son, who would reign as King Sinmun, though the succession wasn't exactly smooth. We are told that Munmu, knowing his time was short, requested that his son, the Crown Prince, be named king before they attended to Munmu's own funerary arrangements, claiming that the throne should not sit vacant.  This may have been prescient, as the same year Munmu died and Sinmun ascended to the throne there was a revolt, led by none other than Sinmun's own father-in-law, Kim Heumdol.  Heumdol may, himselve, have been more of a figurehead for other political factions in the court and military.  Nonetheless, the attempted coup of 681 was quickly put down—the envoys in Yamato would likely only learn about everything after the dust had settled upon their return. The following year, 682, we see another interesting note about kings, this time in regards to the Goguryeo envoys, whom we are told were sent by the King of Goguryeo.  Ever since moving the commandery to Liaodong, the Tang empire had claimed dominion over the lands of Goguryeo north of the Taedong river.  Originally they had administered it militarily, but in 677 they crowned a local, Bojang as the "King of Joseon", using the old name for the region, and put him in charge of the Liaodong commandery.  However, he was removed in 681, and sent into exile in Sichuan, because rather than suppressing revolt, he had actually encouraged restoration attempts, inviting back Goguryeo refugees, like those who had been detained in Yamato.  Although Bojang himself was sent into exile, his descendants continued to claim sovereignty, so it may have been one of them that was making the claim to the "King of Goguryeo", possibly with Silla's blessing. Later that year, 682, we see Hayato from Ohosumi and Ata—possibly meaning Satsuma—the southernmost point of Kyushu coming to the court in 682.  They brought tribute and representatives of Ohosumi and Ata wrestled, with the Ohosumi wrestler emerging victorious.  They were entertained west of Asukadera, and various kinds of music was performed and gifts were given. They were apparently quite the sight, as Buddhist priests and laiety all came out to watch. Little is known for certain about the Hayato.  We have shields that are attributed to them, but their association may have more to do with the fact that they were employed as ceremonial guards for a time at the palace.  We do know that Southern Kyushu had various groups that were seen as culturally distinct from Yamato, although there is a lot of overlap in material culture.  We also see early reports of the Kumaso, possibly two different groups, the Kuma and So, in earlier records, and the relationship between the Kumaso and the Hayato is not clearly defined. What we do know is that southern Kyushu, for all that it shared with Yamato certain aspects of culture through the kofun period, for example, they also had their own traditions. For example, there is a particular burial tradition of underground kofun that is distinct to southern Kyushu.  A great example of this can be found at the Saitobaru Kofun cluster in Miyazaki, which contains these unique southern Kyushu style burials along with more Yamato style keyhole shaped and circular type kofun.  Miyazaki sits just north of the Ohosumi peninsula, in what was formerly the land of Hyuga, aka  Himuka.  This is also where a lot of the founding stories of the Heavenly grandchild were placed, and even today there is a shrine there to the Heavenly Rock Cave.  In other words there are a lot of connections with Southern Kyushu, and given that the Chronicles were being written in the later 7th and early 8th centuries, it is an area of intense interest when trying to understand the origins of Yamato and Japanese history. Unfortunately, nothing clearly tells us exactly how the Hayato were separate, but in the coming century they would both come under Yamato hegemony and rebel against it, time and again.  This isn't the first time they are mentioned, but it may be the first time that we see them as an actual people, in a factual entry as earlier references in the Chronicles are suspect. Continuing on with our look at diplomacy during this period, the year 683 we see a continuation of the same patterns, with nothing too out of the ordinary.  Same with most of 684 until the 12th lunar month.  It is then that we see a Silla ship arrive with Hashi no Sukune no Wohi and Shirawi no Fubito no Hozen.  They had both, previously been to the Tang empire to study, though we don't have a record of them leaving for that or any other purpose.  They are accompanied by Witsukahi no Muraji no Kobito and Tsukushi no Miyake no Muraji no Tokuko, both of whom had apparently been captured and taken by the Tang dynasty during the Baekje campaign.  Apparently they had all traveled back from the Tang empire together to Silla, who then provided them passage to Yamato. The timing of this suggests it may have had something to do with the changes going on in the Tang empire—changes that I desperately want to get into, but given that we are already a good ways into this current episode, I think I will leave it for later.  But I will note this:  Emperor Gaozong had passed away and his wife, Empress Wu Zetian, was now ruling as regent for her sons.  Wu Zetian is probably the most famous empress in all of Chinese history, and while she held de facto power as a co-regent during her husband's reign and as a regent during her sons' reigns, she would actually ascend the throne herself in 690.  Her reign as a woman during a time of heightened patriarchal tradition is particularly of note, and it leads us to wonder about the vilification that she received by the men who followed her rule.  And I really want to get into all of that but, thematically, I think it better to wait.  Those of you reading ahead in the syllabus—which is to say the Chronicles—probably know why.  So let us just leave it there and say that the Tang was going through a few things, and that may explain why students were returning back in the company of former war captives. A few months later, the Silla escort, Gim Mulyu, was sent home along with 7 people from Silla who had been washed ashore—presumably during a storm or other such event, again illustrating the dangers of taking to the ocean at this time.  Perhaps related to that theme is the entry only a month later, which merely stated that Gim Jusan of Silla returned home.  Gim Jusan was an envoy sent to Yamato in the 11th lunar month of 683.  He was entertained in Tsukushi, and we are told that he returned to his own country on the 3rd month of 684.  Now we are seeing an entry in the 4th month of 685 that this same person apparently returned home. It is possible that something got mixed up, and that the Chroniclers were dealing with a typo in the records that made it seem like this took place a year later than it did.  This was certainly an issue at this time, given all the math one had to do just to figure out what day it was.  There is also the possibility that he returned on another embassy, but just wasn't mentioned for some reason.  The last possible explanation is that he somehow got lost and it took him a year to find his way back.  Not entirely impossible back then, though I am a bit skeptical.  Among other things, why would that note have found its way into the Chronicles in Yamato?  While they were certainly using some continental sources, this seems like something they were talking about as far as him leaving the archipelago, rather than discussion of something happening elsewhere. Speaking of happening elsewhere, I'm wondering about another event that happened around this time as well.  In fact, it was while Gim Mulyu was still in the archipelago.  For some reason the Yamato court granted rank to 147 individuals from Tang, Baekje, and Goguryeo.  Interestingly, they don't mention Silla.  Furthermore, there is no real mention of any Tang envoys during this reign.  In fact, there is hardly mention of the Tang dynasty at all.  There is a mention of some 30 Tang men—captives, presumably—being sent to the Yamato court from Tsukushi.  Those men were settled in Toutoumi, so there were men of Tang in the archipelago.  But beyond that, there are only three other mentions of the Tang dynasty.  One was when the students and war captives came back.  Another was this note about giving rank to 147 individuals.  Finally there is a similar record in 686, at the very end of the reign, where it is 34 persons who were given rank.  This time it was to carpenters, diviners, physicians, students from Tang—possibly those who had just come back a year or so earlier.  So if there weren't envoys from Tang, Goguryeo, and Baekje, who were these people and why were they being granted Yamato court rank?  My assumption is that it was foreigners living in the archipelago, and being incorporated into the Yamato court system.  Still, it is interesting that after the overtures by the Tang in the previous reign we have heard virtually nothing since then.  Again, that is likely largely due to the conflicts between Tang and Silla, though now, things seem to be changing.  The conflicts have settled down, and new rulers are in place, so we'll see how things go. Speaking of which, let's finish up with the diplomatic exchanges in this reign.  I'm only hitting some of the highlights here.  First is the return from Silla, in the 5th month of 685, of Takamuku no Asomi no Maro and Tsuno no Asomi no Ushikahi.  They had traveled to Silla in 684, and they did not come back emptyhanded.  The new King of Silla presented them with gifts, including 2 horses, 3 dogs, 2 parrots, and 2 magpies.  They also brought back the novice monks Kanjou and Ryoukan.  Not bad, overall. Then, 6 months later, another tribute mission came, but this one has an interesting—if somewhat questionable—note attached to it.  It is said that the envoys Gim Jisyang and Gim Geonhun were sent to request "governance" and to bring tribute.  This certainly go the court's attention.  They didn't bring the envoys all the way to the capital, but they did send to them, in Tsukushi, Prince Kawachi, Ohotomo no Sukune no Yasumaro, Fujiwara no Asomi no Ohoshima, and Hodzumi no Asomi no Mushimaro. About three months later they send the musical performers from Kawaradera to provide entertainment during a banquet for the Silla envoy, and in payment some 5,000 bundles of rice rom the private lands attached to the queen's palace were granted to the temple in gratitude. The Silla tribute was then brought to the capital from Tsukushi.  This time it was more than 100 items, including one fine horse, one mule, two dogs, a gold container inlaid with some kind of design, gold, silver, faint brocade, silk gauze, tiger and leopard skins, and a variety of medicines.  In addition, as was now common, the envoys, Gim Jisyang and Gim Geonhun, apparently had personal gifts to give in the form of gold, silver, faint brocade, silk gauze, gold containers, screens, saddle hides, silk cloth, and more medicine.  There were also gifts specifically for the sovereign, the queen, the Crown Prince, and for the various princes of the blood. The court returned this favor with gifts to the envoys, presented at a banquet just for them, before sending them on their way. A couple of notes.  First off, it is interesting that they are entertained at Tsukushi rather than being invited to the capital, and I wonder if this was because the sovereign, Ohoama, wasn't doing so well.  This was all happening in 685 and 686, and the sovereign would pass away shortly afterwards.  So it is possible that Ohoama just was not up to entertaining visitors at this time.  Of course, the Chronicles often don't tell us exactly why a given decision was made, only that it was.  And sometimes not even that. The other thing that seems curious is the mention of a request for governance.  That almost sounds like Silla was asking to come under Yamato hegemony, which I seriously doubt.  It may be that they were asking something along the lines of an alliance, but it is also possible that the scribes recording things for Yamato heard what they wanted to hear and so wrote it down in the light most favorable to Yamato laying claim to the peninsula. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding exactly what they were asking for.  Maybe "governance" here means something else—perhaps just some kind of better relationship. And with that, we'll leave it for now.  There is more developing in the next reign, but I think we want to wait until we get there.  There are still a lot more things to cover in this reign before we move on—we haven't even touched on the establishment of the new capital, on the various court events, not to mention some of the laws and punishments that this period is named for.  And there is the minor issue of a rebellion.  All of that will be dealt with.  And then, after that, we get to the final reign of the Chronicles: the reign of Jitou Tennou.  From there?  Who knows. It is the winter holiday season, so I hope everyone is enjoying themselves.  Next episode will be the New Year's recap, and then we should finish with this reign probably in January or early February. 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Backpackers claim that Brunei's the most boring country in Asia. After speaking with numerous travellers, and hearing comments such as "Brunei's only worth visiting if you're counting countries", Alun went to see for himself. In this episode, we hear why Brunei is one of Asia's most misunderstood destinations.Stay tuned for Tales of a Trip, as Karl Watson shares a rollercoaster of a story! We find out the link between his YouTube channel, his wedding day, and altitude sickness in Tibet! Subscribe to Karl's YouTube channel if you haven't already; he makes fabulous travel videos!Karlwatsondocs: www.youtube.com/@karlwatsondocsSubmit your travel stories here: https://www.tripologypodcast.com/talesofatripSupport the show and gain access to the Lost & Found section. This week, Adam encounters a very forgiving Police Officer, but his windscreen encounters a less forgiving rock!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tripologypodcastNeed travel insurance? We recommend SafetyWing! Click here to get started: ⁠⁠⁠https://safetywing.com/?referenceID=26035801&utm_source=26035801&utm_medium=AmbassadorRequire an onward flight? Please use this fantastic flight rental service: ⁠⁠⁠https://onwardticket.com/tripologypodcast⁠⁠⁠Discord: https://discord.gg/NknAsV9EInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tripologypodcast/Website: https://www.tripologypodcast.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tripologypodcastX: https://x.com/tripologypod

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/central-asian-studies

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar. Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. ------------------ Jing Li teaches Chinese language, literature, and cinema. Her research focuses on rural China, independent filmmaking, and digital media cultures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Please join us for this transmission where we connect with the Enlightened Beings in Tibet and the Guardians to specifically bless our channels and chakras and activate the solar and lunar energies in our subtle bodies to produce radiance and glow on all levels.  This awakened enlightened state will then transform our actions and interactions with each other and the environment.The 45 minute transmission is guided by the Divine, Our Spiritual Teachers and Guides, the Enlightened Beings of Tibet, and the Guardians of Tibet to activate the solar kundalini energies at the base of our spine and the lunar kundalini energies beneath our crown.  We ask that our central channel and the chakras emanating from this energy highway be blessed and function at the highest level and capacity.

བོད་དོན་ཞུ་གཏུགས་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ངོས་ནས་རྒྱ་གར་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ ༢༢ ལྷག་ལ་བོད་དོན་ཞུ་སྐུལ་གནང་འདུག The post བོད་དོན་ཞུ་གཏུགས་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ངོས་ནས་རྒྱ་གར་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ ༢༢ ལྷག་ལ་བོད་དོན་ཞུ་སྐུལ་གནང་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Watch the full podcast! https://chinauncensored.tv/programs/podcast-317 There are many ways the CCP tries to take over other countries' territory. There's military invasion (Tibet). Political invasion (Hong Kong). Piecemeal land acquisition (Bhutan). And now the CCP's latest technique has made Indian people FURIOUS.

From the koan chants of monasteries tucked between Himalayan peaks, to wending caravan paths stretching endlessly across the arid expanses of the Taklamakan & trackless steppes of Dzungaria, we finish out our look at the four primary frontier regions of the Qing Empire as of 1800, where they'd come from, how they were operated, & the imperial tonnage of headaches for Beijing that came with both.Tibet - 00:01:21Xinjiang - 00:22:08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DeepSeek's Security Backdoors — Jack Burnham — Burnham reports that the Chinese AI model DeepSeekgenerates code containing severe security vulnerabilities when queried regarding Chinese Communist Party-sensitive topics including Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, demonstrating that the model contains embedded political surveillance and control mechanisms. Burnham characterizes DeepSeek as possessing a "split personality": technical competence in general programming tasks combined with sophisticated political filtering and censorship capabilities. Burnhamrecommends urgent prohibition of such Chinese AI models from American critical infrastructure, government systems, and defense networks due to inherent security risks and embedded espionage capabilities. 1956

What does it mean for your reality that every moment of your life is being co-written by you and God? Josh Trent welcomes Dr. Steven Young, Hermetic Expert, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 784, to explore how every moment in our lives is co-orchestrated by both God and the self, why our wounds are divine assignments, how we can shift reality using frequencies, and why imagination is more powerful than desire. Get 33% Off Dr. Steven Young's Hermetics Course Dr. Steven Young's Hermetics Course bridges the modern and the mystical by teaching the Seven Hermetic Principles, the universal laws revealed in The Kybalion, in an actionable, science-meets-spirit format. This course empowers you to reshape your reality from the inside out by mastering principles like Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, and Polarity. Beyond philosophical teachings, this immersive program provides tools to rewire your mind, reprogram limiting beliefs, and recalibrate your energy, whether you're healing trauma, improving your health, or simply raising your vibration. 33% OFF WITH CODE "JOSH33" In This Episode, Dr. Steven Young Uncovers: [00:50] God Orchestrates Every Single Moment How both God and ourselves orchestrate every moment of our lives. Why we're a God self. How humans used to communicate via telepathy. Resources: Dr. Steven Young 754 Dr. Steven Young | How to Use Your Mind to Change Reality Beyond Limitations [03:55] Purpose: The Ego vs God How the ego and infinite God can be harmonized. Why God doesn't have free will, but humans do. How we exist in a purpose that's beyond comprehension. Why we either produce from lack or wholeness. How the frequency of lack produces more lack. [10:05] God Experiences Life Through You Why we need to learn to honor our mothers. How our wounds are a gift from God. Why the dense energies we're given will eventually expand. How God experiences infinite frequencies through humans. Why God wants to have experiences through us. Resources: 538 John Wineland | A New Masculine Paradigm: Leading With Love, Living Your Truth + Healing The World [15:25] What Dictates Your Reality Why we shouldn't rely only and knowing and intellect. How the relationship to an object dictates our reality. Why many parents overprotect their children and create friction in their relationship. How polarity works. Resources: Cosmic Joke [18:55] The Pendulum Swing Why people who ask for connection experience extreme loneliness. How God makes us experience the polar opposites. Why getting off the pendulum swing allows us to become nothing and everything. Resources: The Punisher (2004) [21:50] Relationship Pendulum What Steven's visit to Tibet with his ex-partner taught him. How he's struggled in finding a partner. What led him and his ex-partner to start getting back together. [26:15] Distorted Sexual Energy How the Yin and Yang symbol represents God, and both sides are one. Why Steven doesn't judge malevolent sexual energy. How sexual energy is a creative force. Why lack represents separation. [31:35] The Root Source of All Addiction Why we need to honor the anger that we feel towards the demonic sexual energy. How the Western healing system tells us something's wrong with us. Why God loves us no matter what we do. How addictions distract us from feeling ourselves. Resources: Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson [37:10] Spiritual Separation + Deception Why labels put us in a box and separate us from the infinite. How the spiritual people live in separation. The purpose of deception in the human experience. [39:50] The Power of Words How Steven's brain got attacked by flash-eating bacteria. Why we should rely more on intuition than intellect. How the word "vulnerability" implies we put ourselves at risk. The problem with conscious capitalism. Resources: Emotional Epigenetics™: The Sacred Science of Identity Transformation (Remember Who You Are) [46:25] A Business Is a Living Entity The five planes of existence. Why businesses are living things. How the intention and desire behind creating a business shape its outcomes. Why our desire to have a thriving future wants to happen. [51:10] The Purpose of Hermetic Laws How Steven was called to create the course. Why hermetic principles help us navigate the five planes of existence. How hermetics create more peace in our lives. Why Steven's favorite hermetic law is the law of correspondence. [54:50] Everything In Your Life Is a Manifestation How we need to look beyond things to understand them. Why the double slit experiment confirms the hermetic laws. How we don't need to step into our power because we've always been beyond powerful. Why we're never not manifesting. How our conscious awareness slows down vibration to change wave form to solid. Why we create reality just like God. Resources: Patch Adams (1998) What The Bleep Do We Know?! (2004) [01:00:40] How Imagination Can Shift Reality How what we imagine creates our reality. Why our imagination is more powerful than our conscious desires. How schools take away our imagination to keep us enslaved. Resources: An Experimental study of imagination. [01:04:20] Science and Spirituality Are One How alchemy merges science and spirit. Why spirit and science operate as one. How religion separated science and spirituality. Why we're now heading toward the merge of science and spirituality. [01:08:05] Recognize Your Subconscious How Carl Jung impacted Steven's work. Why our work here is to recognize our subconscious self. How Steven's partner shows him love even when he's not loving. [01:13:00] Advanced Hermetics Why the hermetic teachings become more powerful once we start embodying them. How advanced hermetic practices reveal our shadow and ego. Why hermetics are the source code for all spiritual teachings. How people can de-materialize and re-materialize to time travel. Why Atlantis was an advanced civilization that communicated telepathically. Resources: Byron Katie [01:20:20] The Third Reality How everything has been happening faster in the last 5 years. Why we're finally starting to remember our divinity. The importance of choosing what we allow into our consciousness. How chaos is being balanced out. Resources: 782 Tom Bilyeu: Do THIS Before AI Takes 300 Million Jobs [01:25:10] Nothing Can Grow Without Space How Steven's friend spent 9 months in silence in a monastery. Why we can't have an experience without space. How nouns and judgment put us in a box. Why so many people don't feel fulfilled. How cognitive biases prevent us from seeing the opposite story. "For 36,000 years, humanity lived in complete harmony with dimensional beings because we understood and lived by the Hermetic laws. We lost that knowledge after the reset, but now we're seeing and experiencing a resurgence of that wisdom. We are remembering our divinity and accessing pure source code of reality." — Dr. Steven Young Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts All Resources From This Episode Dr. Steven Young 754 Dr. Steven Young | How to Use Your Mind to Change Reality Beyond Limitations 538 John Wineland | A New Masculine Paradigm: Leading With Love, Living Your Truth + Healing The World Cosmic Joke The Punisher (2004) Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson Emotional Epigenetics™: The Sacred Science of Identity Transformation (Remember Who You Are) Patch Adams (1998) What The Bleep Do We Know?! (2004) An Experimental study of imagination. Byron Katie 782 Tom Bilyeu: Do THIS Before AI Takes 300 Million Jobs Josh's Trusted Products | Up To 40% Off Shop All Products Biohacking⁠