High in a treeless valley in China's remote Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture lies the the largest Tibetan Buddhist school in the world. Founded in 1980, the Seda Larung Wuming Tibetan Buddhist Institute consists of a few main buildings and a tens of thousands of small dormitories built on the surrounding hillsides. At any given time, the Institute houses up to 40,000 monks and nuns who come from different schools of Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya and Kagyu. Students usually take six years to complete the formal training. Higher levels of training can take 13 years.
havent watched any of the french open but just noticed that djokovic v nadal is about to go down at 10 am est. nadal is somehow seeded 6th so this quarterfinal matchup came sooner than it might have in the recent past. i dont think nadal performed particularly well in the clay court tourneys leading up to the french so theres been a lot of hang-wringing as to whether his reign as clay court king is about to end. he has won 9 out of the last 10 french opens.
fivethirtyeight is liveblogging the match.
cant recall if i did this one. daughter of a movie actress who co-starred in a top grossing movie from 80s. also starred in a sitcom in the 90s. who is the mom?
world cup of women starts on saturday. heres a fivethirtyeight preview. first us game is on monday.
In her new book, Michelle Goldberg traces the Western practice of yoga to a Russian woman named Indra Devi. Goldberg says that many of the poses in modern yoga can't be traced beyond 150 years ago.
well, that was fast. blatter resigns.
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on this day LM discovers GIF hack that works on FB somewhat convincingly, thus forcing FB to its knees. the subversive potential is staggering.
nate silver on how to break fifa.
"Where Mad Men ends, Two-Lane Blacktop begins..."
ive found the easiest way to "use up" a surplus of eggs is to forget they are on the stove when you are hard boiling them.
wow. such polite arrests by the swiss. i hope this leads to new picks for next two world cups.
pop-up egg cream
BBQ w Franklin
great austin based how to series.
bladeless wind turbines
The last of the Samurai: Hand-colored photographs of the warriors and their courtesans
American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2015 art awards:
Jane Rosen, Steve Dibenedetto, Brenda Goodman, Gary Lang, and Stanley Lewis received the Arts and Letters Awards in Art, honoring “exceptional accomplishment and to encourage creative work.”
final letterman on tonight. guest bill murray and bob dylan.
