Ratna
@Ratnadhrk
Interested in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, scholasticism, and contemplative traditions.
What is the influence of long-term meditation practice on cognition? How might this relate to advanced meditation—access to meditative states, stages, and endpoints? In our new review titled “Mindfulness, cognition, and long-term meditators: Toward a science of advanced…
It's 2025. You're on Arnold Schwarzenegger's mailing list and receive an e-mail from him about nirodhasamāpatti.
Why isn't China's renaming of Tibet to "Xizang" and East Turkestan to "Xinjiang" seen as equally absurd as Trump trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico? Why does it face so little comparable opposition?
In our new essay for @JoDemocracy, @Tendor (a super talented representative of a new generation of Tibetan scholars) and I unpack Beijing's attempt to erase "Tibet" from global discourse. Words matter—don’t let Tibet disappear quietly. #Tibet #Xizang t.ly/FwE5o
Dharmamitra.org is offering the "english explained" option publicly. If you set that as the target language, the sentences get an extensive breakdown in addition to the translation. I hope this is helpful! It should work for all languages, including Tibetan and Chinese.
The term “laissez faire” is literally derived from a french translation of “wu wei”
Announcing the first publicly available desktop app for Tibetan OCR. This is a beta release and we plan to further refine the OCR models and add additional functionality. For the full story and github download link, visit our news site. bdrc.io/blog/2025/03/1…
I thought my favorite thread in Twitter history had been deleted and lost forever, but it turns out my friend had screenshots. See replies for the rest.
There's a crude saying that comes to mind reading this —about fooling around and finding out. Don't the Lamas teach Tamangs about actions and their consequences these days?
An earlier report from CNN this year cites at least 15,000 Nepalese men recruited by Russia. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/10…
A Norwegian version of the idiom “like a fish out of water” translates to “like a Dane on skis.” And an old Norwegian phrase for someone sneaking out of a party without saying bye is “making a Swede of oneself.” Conversely, a Finnish euphemism for vomiting is “speaking Norwegian”
There are now 22 villages and settlements constructed by China within #Bhutan's customary borders. The construction is continuing: seven were built within the last 18 months and three are going to be upgraded to towns. Documentation, maps and images here: turquoiseroof.org/forceful-diplo…
Tibetan depiction of an Englishman in the Wheel of Existence, early 20th century
I try to function but this is happening in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the world is so desensitised to all the atrocities russians are committing here, that there's barely any reaction to it.
Students interested in STEM should probably know that if you create an anonymous forum for biologists, you get constant posts from people having existential crises over being pressured into mass mouse murder 🧵
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is proud to announce an exciting project that will contribute a powerful new app and millions of pages of primary materials to Tibetan Studies. Read the full story in our latest blog post at bdrc.io/news/ bdrc.io/blog/2024/08/2…
Saw these Buddhist Monks sitting in a park in Muscat, really unusual sight in very Islamic Oman. Looked out of place so was curious and asked “why are you in Oman?” “We are on holiday” “You’ve come to Oman on holiday? Why?” “Why not? And you why are you in Oman?” “I’m on holiday”