Vous explorez les archives pour Tibet.

As early as the 1860s and especially in the 1880s, early British photographers such as Bourne, Shepherd, Parr, and others established contact with Himalayan peoples in the regions close to India. Remarkable portraits of high-mountain peoples of various ethnicities and backgrounds were made by these photographers, some in their studios and others at places of pilgrimage in northern India and Nepal.

Des photos du Tibet, du Népal, de l’Inde, datant de presque cent cinquante ans…

Source : Asian Art.

I also can’t help but imagine what would happen if the US embassy organized a protest with a bunch of Americans in Seoul and handed out US flags for the American crowd to attack Koreans with.

C’est en effet une question qui mérite d’être posée (on qu’est c’est bien gardé de poser en France).

I just watched the videos in the Chosun Ilbo article linked below. Fuck me. I’m going to be very disappointed when mass deportations are not handed out for this. Seriously. Korea has enough brownshirts posing as university students; it doesn’t need China’s, too. Kick ‘em out. Especially the ones caught attacking cops. If you’re a foreigner and you attack cops in broad daylight in the middle of the capital, you should consider yourself lucky if the only thing that happens to you is a deportation. Put them on the next ferry to China and be done with it.

Sources : ROK Drop et Free Korea.

The scientist who has worked most closely with the Dalai Lama is Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Davidson first met the Dalai Lama in 1992, and since about 2000 has been investigating a question dear to the heart of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism: can mental training such as meditations change the brain in an enduring way? That “enduring” is key: of course the brain “changes”—in the sense that some areas become more active—when you meditate, just as it changes when you think of pink elephants, watch Obama or try to remember your first kiss. Everything we think has a corresponding brain activity. But once the thought stops, so does the activity. Usually. What Davidson wanted to know was whether meditation left a long-lasting imprint on the brain, some change of function or structure.

Article assez sur l’étude neurologique de la méditation chez les bouddhistes et, notamment, chez le Dalaï-Lama.

Source : Newsweek.

A quand le rap tibétain ? Avec des groupes comme Bouddhiz With Attitude chantant Fuck tha Chinese Police :

Giono, dans Un roi sans divertissement, faisait dire, je crois, au braconnier : « …le sang sur la neige, très propre, rouge et blanc, c’était très beau… », eh bien, peut-être est-ce cela à quoi pensent les soldats chinois…
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