Showing posts with label Bon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bon. Show all posts
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Swastika confusion

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  A very short introduction to the swastika problematique (which seems to be vast) in Buddhism and the related Bon religion.  Apparently, Bu...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Female deities that are green

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    The super-niche YouTube channel HAR (Himalayan Art Resources) strikes again. Very strange stuff in these videos, including a green versi...

Art nerds with wings

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  "Himalayan Art Resources, Inc." must be the ultimate nerd channel on YouTube. Or maybe not, since Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Inside the Samadhi caves

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  A Singaporean YouTube video referencing some fringe speculations about Mount Kailash (Shiva´s holy mountain) in Tibet. The content is base...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

A world of wisdom

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  A kind of sequel to the previous blog post. Yes, we´re entering the strange and wonderful territory of Tibetan Buddhism and folklore!  Wha...

The wild hunt goes to Tibet

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  - Yeah, we may look nice now, but just wait until Christmas! There does seem to be similar ideas to the Wild Hunt in India and Tibet, so h...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Exorcizing the exorcist

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  “Exorcising the Illusion of Bon “Shamans”: A Critical Genealogy of Shamanism in Tibetan Religions” by Zeff Bjerken is a scholarly article ...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

On the margins

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  "A Minority Within a Minority: Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile" is a dissertation by Yu-Shan Liu, a Taiwanese anth...
Monday, January 15, 2024

The view from Dolanji

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  Tonpa Shenrab, supposed founder of the Bon religion Credit: Lishu Institute So I´ve been browsing the web after (free) information on Bon ...

For insiders only?

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  I know, it´s the wrong Buddha, so hit me! I recently read a somewhat obscure article on a topic I know next to nothing about, frankly most...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Tibetan remnant

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"Bön in Dolpo" is a 2014 documentary about Dolpo, an area in northern Nepal, apparently part of a larger district somewhat confusi...
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