Peace breaks out in Cambodia/Thailand?

Buddhist Thailand and Cambodia at war

Have Israel and the CIA's crimes in Gaza made war the norm? 

Thailand Cambodia War Timeline Explained?

(AiTelly) July 25, 2025: UNITED STATES. The roots of the Thailand–Cambodia border crisis stretch deep into the colonial past, when the Franco-Siamese treaties of the early 1900s left boundaries ill-defined and susceptible to later dispute.

• Thai means "free" as it was never formally colonized by Western powers, though Japan intruded during WW II to cross The Bridge on the River Kwai (The Bridge over the River Kwai)

Tensions simmered for decades, especially around ancient Buddhist temples that dot the border. Among these, Prasat Ta Muen Thom and the areas near Preah Vihear became focal points for competing national claims, bearing not just strategic significance but also the weight of cultural pride.

(DW) Could US and China become involved in neighborly dispute?

• What's the real motive beyond the manufactured pretext? Gas or oil reserves, greed of a corrupt Thai government, greed for tourist destinations? This is not a religious dispute but an economic one, according to one Thai American Wisdom Quarterly spoke with. It is reminiscent of Israel's greed for Gaza's underground resources, preferring to let people believe it is all about ideology, national security, and a biblical dispute rather than what it really is, genocide for economic advantage.

As the year 2025 began, a sense of unease hovered along the frontier. On May 28, the fragile calm shattered. Gunfire erupted at the Emerald Triangle, where Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged shots.

The clash caused the lives of one Cambodian soldier, and the Blame Game began immediately, with each nation accusing the other of provocation. By June 7, the rhetoric gave way to visible preparations for confrontation.

Thailand bolstered its border positions, simultaneously leveling accusations of provocations against Cambodian forces and civilians. Throughout June and July, the border region grew ever more volatile. Spasms of minor clashes flared up, border crossings shut down, and the movement of civilians became increasingly restricted.

Military alerts were raised on both sides. The crucial turning point arrived on July 24, 2025. Before dawn, Thai troops reported the presence of Cambodian drones buzzing near Prasat Ta Muen Thom.

A patrol of six armed Cambodian soldiers soon appeared at the perimeter of a Thai base, setting nerves on edge.

Around 6:30 am, shots rang out once again. The chaos of combat bred confusion and recrimination: Cambodia accused Thailand of launching an unprovoked assault, while Thailand claimed Cambodian soldiers had fired first near the temple.

The conflict escalated with frightening speed. By 9:40 Thailand reported a salvo of B M-21 rockets arcing from Cambodian positions toward Prasat Don Tuan, their impact threatening nearby civilian neighborhoods.

Barely ten minutes later, the violence spilled to the vicinity of Ta Kwai Temple, where further clashes erupted. At 10:58 am, the smoldering border ignited fully F-16 fighter jets from the Royal Thai Air Force thundered overhead, bombing Cambodian military positions at Chong An Ma.

Thai officials declared that key Cambodian command posts had been destroyed. As the day wore on, the fighting sprawled along several kilometers of the contested boundary. Artillery thundered, rockets exploded, and both armies unleashed heavy weaponry, transforming the frontier into a battleground.

• Thailand Cambodia War Timeline Explained?

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Theravada Buddhism in Minnesota, USA?

How Cambodian Minnesotans built one of North America's largest Buddhist temples

(WCCO - CBS Minnesota) May 7, 2025: Cambodian refugees came to Minnesota in the early 1980s. Today, the town of Hampton, about 35 miles southeast of Minneapolis, is home to Watt Munisotaram — one of the largest Buddhist temples in North America. Watch the full special: cbsloc.al/432xqDL. Learn more: cbsloc.al/44WsmmL.

• Buddhism in Cambodia

Finding Minnesota: Buddhist temple sits south of Twin Cities

(WCCO - CBS Minnesota) Aug. 26, 2018: In this week's Finding Minnesota, we traveled to Hampton and found out why this Theravada Buddhist temple has become a destination for all kinds of Buddhists and non-Buddhist visitors. John Lauritsen reports (3:40). WCCO 4 News At 10 – Aug. 26, 2018

Twitter: wcco. Instagram: wcco. #wcco #cambodia #cambodians #buddhism #vietnamwar #vietnam #refugees #immigration. Official Site: wcco.com. Facebook: cbsminnesota.

• WCCO; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Spring Begins: Vernal Equinox (3/20)

Tibetan Buddhist Goddess White Tara (among other Taras), whose name means "star"

(NBC News) Deadly storms expected across USA as millions brace for tornadoes before spring

Now it's called March equinox in the U.S.

No one seems to have told the rest of the country, but where the sun sets (West Coast), the sun rose this morning to a new spring. Everything is green and sunny, cool and moist, and a person's thoughts lilt towards thoughts of 

The Spring Equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, is one of the four solar festivals of the year. The equinox — which translates roughly in Latin to “equal night” — is when the sun sits vertically above the equator, making day and night equal across the planet.

Buddhist Angkor Wat, Cambodia, on the equinox

Persephone, Goddess of Spring (animalia-life)

The Spring Equinox officially marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and there are celebrations around the world to usher in longer days and springtime. [This is the real traditional New Year's Day, when the Earth (Tierra, Gaia, Bhumi) renews herself in preparation for another cycle.]

In some cultures, this day also marks the beginning of the new year, which in Iranian (original Aryan) culture is called Nowruz. The Spring Equinox is a brilliant time for new beginnings [like maybe a nice spring cleaning], no matter how one celebrates on March 20th.

Here are some Spring Equinox Activities...  More

• This is the best time to begin a regular meditation practice, graduating to walking meditation, mindfulness in nature, and deep stillness to see things as they really are.

An outfit just for practice helps.

Do the basics: Put on all white. Find a quiet spot apart from distractions. Use this spot over and over again. It becomes powerful. Set down a mat and cushion (a bundle of leaves or grass is enough to get the tailbone higher than the knees). Sit. Inhale deeply. Release. Do it again a few times, without forcing the air out. It's just about letting go completely, so completely that the body hangs as if held up by a clothing hanger, not stiff, not slack.

You're a baby in white, so go easy.

Straighter is more comfortable, even though it doesn't seem like it at first. Posture is important to attention. Bring (advert) the attention to the present moment, this moment, and to stay in just this moment, remain aware of the breath. Which breath? This breath, just the one happening now all by itself. Become the watcher (not the commenter, fixer, improver, slowdowner, or anything else), just the watcher. This is mindfulness -- clear awareness of the present without evaluation.

Whoa, what a trip! What was that? I want that again!

Set a time limit in advance and keep it. Even if it would be nice to go longer because it is going so well, know the time of rising. Even if it is going horribly with raving lunatic thoughts of a psychopath with lurid fantasies and wrath, lust and revenge, delusion and a lightshow, know the time of rising. The mind will thank you later.

Ten minutes is a good start time, slowly working up to an hourlong sit. That seems impossible now, but in time, whaddyaknow, it suddenly is possible. What changed? I'dunno. This practice is about persistence. It does itself and then there is no effort. The enemies of that are expectations, unsettled greed or desire for achieving something, and the Five Hindrances. They will come to hinder. They are already present. They can be overcome. But whether or not they have been overcome, persist. This is spring. This is the beginning. Have "beginner's mind" in place of the "monkey mind" that usually rules the cage. Smile. It helps.

Instructions are confusing because it's so simple.

It is easy to say that "meditation is NOT about thinking." That's clear. That's easy to see. Don't indulge thought; just let them be by turning your attention to this subtle breath that keeps changing. What is difficult to grasp is that "meditation is NOT about not-thinking." Not-thinking may happen. It doesn't matter. As that is not the goal, if it doesn't happen, it's okay. Giving attention to one object and bringing attention back and back again and again ("Begin again" as Sharon Salzberg says) is what is important.

Feed me, Phone-Momma! Feed me more!!

The mind like a petulant and insolent child will resist. Let it. Bring it back. Do not scold it or become upset. Let it be. Surrender completely to this moment, whatever is in this moment, not being moved to do anything no matter what the mind says it must do. See what happens. Could the mind be wrong no matter what it feels or demands or insists is true?

How did Siddhartha Gautama do it?

We'll never see things as they really are so long as we keep believing that we already are seeing them that way. We have never been seeing them that way. If we had, we'd awaken. We'd be enlightened, which is to say, Dependent Origination would make sense. And it doesn't, does it? (Hint: It's a practice, not a theory). That's a whole different kind of meditation called insight (vipassana) after getting good at this kind, which is called serenity (samatha). Don't jump ahead. Let it go. (If all else fails, sign up for a free 10-day Goenka retreat. Everyone should do at least one in life).

TODAY IS ALSO

• SPRING BEGINS - March 20, 2025
• SPRING EQUINOX - March 20, 2025
• MARCH EQUINOX - March 20, 2025
• GREAT AMERICAN MEAT OUT DAY 
• INT'L DAY OF HAPPINESS - March 20
• ALIEN ABDUCTION DAY - March 20
• ASTROLOGY DAY - March 20, 2025
• FEAST OF SAINT JOSEPH - March 20
• DOGS IN YELLOW DAY - March 20
• NATIONAL PROPOSAL DAY - March 20
• KISS YOUR FIANCE DAY - March 20

POEM: "Locksley Hall"

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Greco-Roman Cora

Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn:

Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn.

'T is the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call,

Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall;

Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts,

And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts.

Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,

Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,

Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.

Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime

With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;

When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed;

When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed:

When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see;

Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.—

In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;

In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. More

• Buddhist temple: Angkor Wat on the Equinox
• NationalToday, March 20, 2025; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The Poetry Foundation); Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Angkor Wat on the equinox 2024

As thousands gather to see the spectacle, many having planned on adding the leg to their Thailand itinerary, it's hard to imagine every massive Buddhist temple and monolith doesn't get the same adoration and treatment. The builders obviously knew all about celestial events and alignments. This footage is from earlier in the year, and today is no exception as fall equinox dawns on the planet.

Cambodia Trip 4K: Amazing Equinox sunrise on the top of Angkor Wat Temple 2024

(The Walk Street) March 21, 2024: This is amazing equinox sunrise on the top of Angkor Wat Temple with about 10,000 tourists watching this amazing place aligned to the equinoxes and solstices in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.

Buddhist pyramids and other ruins

Pagan, Burma (Bagan, Myanmar ©soft light/Shutterstock)

Who was the architect in Taiwan who thought of Mahabodhi Temples and a pyramid?

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Balloons really fly over Bagan as best way to see

The most memorable time to see the ancient site of Bagan is at sunrise or sunset, when the ancient peaks of this sprawling temple complex (filled with many Buddhist monuments, temples, and a thousand+ stupas) are illuminated by a soft glow.

They can best be seen in the morning by hot air balloon, but we rented a bike and drove around from ancient ruin to ruin to well-kept temple, at least one of which was like a European castle made of stone.

This living archeological site, which sits on the fertile plains of the Irrawaddy River delta, is composed of more than 1,000 red-brick temples, pagodas, palaces, and Buddhist monasteries, which were built between 1057 and 1287 AD.

Sadly in 2016, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the site, and 185 of the buildings were damaged, with restoration work continuing to this day. It was the Pagan (\puh-gone\ not \pay-gan\) Empire, circa 1210.

[The reason there are so many is that the Burmese Theravada Buddhists learned that they could make merit by building a Buddhist monastery or monument. So they competed with one another so that ever villager of means began construction to ensure the future with good karma.]

Proof the ETs planned and built these structures: the presence of vast amounts of liquid mercury under a Chinese Buddhist tomb site, the Mexican pyramid site at Teotihuacan (40 miles from modern Mexico City), and at least one ancient Egyptian pyramid. Ancient humans mined and moved super toxic mercury for its value in energy production?

The wonders of Angkor in Cambodia, once the world's largest city

Cambodian (Khmer) Theravada Buddhist monks still use the grand monastery (Angkor Wat)

The walls, levels, peaks, and geometry represent the Buddhist universe with its many worlds

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Buddhist Angkor (Khmer language អង្គរ, lit. "Capital City"), also known as Yasodhara-pura (Khmer យសោធរបុរៈ, Sanskrit यशोधरपुर) [1, 2], was the capital city of the Khmer Empire in the Cambodian jungle.

The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries. The city center houses the great temple-monastery Angkor Wat, one of Cambodia's most popular tourist attractions.

These walls represent the four quarters of the sky (akasha) and the heavens (sagga) above.

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The geometric arrangement is visible to the godlings (devas)

The name Angkor is derived from nokor (នគរ), a Khmer word meaning "kingdom," which in turn derived from Sanskrit nagara (नगर), meaning "city" [3].

The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" (chakravartin) and "god-king" (deva-raja, melding church and state like the Dalai Lama system once did in Tibet before China overthrew it) and lasted until the late 14th century, first falling under Ayutthayan suzerainty in 1351.

A Khmer rebellion against Siamese (Thai) authority resulted in the 1431 sacking of Angkor by Ayutthaya, causing its population to migrate south to Longvek.

The alternate name, Yasodharapura, was derived from the name of the foster mother of Lord Krishna in Hinduism [which is also the name of Prince Siddhartha's wife before he became the Buddha].

Hinduism -- which had swallowed and melded itself with Buddhism by this time -- was the largest religion in the ancient Khmer Empire, and many temples were constructed by Khmer kings dedicated to Hindu deities, including Angkor Wat. More: Angkor

This tiered motif represents a hierarchical arrangement of heavens (deva lokas)

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The great pyramid temple of Java, Indonesia: Borobudur, the largest excavated site

This Buddhist-Hindu masterpiece is the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world. There is a larger temple complex underground in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan (ancient Gandhara) but that may stay underground due to the US war on Afghanistan's economy and chance of recovery, leaving it wholly dependent on outside investors from China.

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From the Buddhist empires of Indonesia (Java), India, Burma, Cambodia to the Greek kingdoms Buddhist Bactria and Europe to Africa (Egypt), to China, to Mexico and the Mayan sites of modern Mesoamerica and the Indigenous dwellings of the Americas, these breathtaking ruins offer a fascinating insight into how some of the world’s oldest cultures lived. Here are 30 ancient sites that any history lover should visit at least once in their lifetime.

• The Buddhist-Hindu temple above, with Buddhas in bells atop it, is called Borobudur, Java, Indonesia (Adel Newman/Shutterstock). One would be hard-pressed to find a more stunning sight than sunrise over Buddhist Borobudur (with the exception of the larger sites of formerly Buddhist Afghanistan or ancient Gandhara), with Mount Merapi rising up in the background. This impressive structure, located in Central Java, is the world’s largest (excavated) Buddhist temple. It was built between AD 778 and 850, under the Shailendra dynasty. (It needed to be excavated because invading Muslims could neither explain how Buddhists and Hindus built it nor could they tear it down, so they buried it in mud, and it was forgotten for many years. Then one day a British surveyor arrived with a map, looked around, and said, "That mountain does not belong there." He climbed it, dug into it, and rediscovered it for all humanity. It was cleansed of the caked mud and plants, revealing wonders that can hardly be explained today. It is so level and all made of stone without mortar or cement. How? Even with a laser level, it would be an impressive feat to build it now.] It’s thought that the ancient kingdom was used for only two centuries before volcanic activity from Merapi, between AD 928 and 1006, led Buddhist monks to abandon the sacred site. Today, it’s best visited with a guide, who can be hired for about 50,000 Indonesian rupees (US$3.22).

We are lied to. Much is kept from us. Which country has the most pyramids? No, not Egypt. Not Mexico. It is Syria. (Who even knew there were any there? If there are 167 Egyptian pyramids, there are about 220 ancient Syrian ones. Yet, we do not remember ever being shown even one of them).

The latest discovery of a Buddhist pyramid (square stupa) is in Central Asia, near Afghanistan.

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The largest pyramid in the world? Egypt? No, not even close. The largest is in Cholula, Mexico. But there are likely larger ones in Bosnia and Indonesia, super ancient sites the size of mountains. We are not allowed to believe in those. They certainly look like pyramids from a distance. Closer up it is not as clear. They are so old they have crumbled and are overgrown. But at least in Bosnia, there is a tunnel system underneath, just as we find in Cholula, Mexico, and Egypt.

Modern Buddhist Taiwan has built the latest Buddhist pyramid with a giant Buddha behind.

Borobudur, Indonesia, in the mist, topped by many small hollow stupas with Buddhas inside.

These are the archeological remains of a mountain-sized pyramid in Indonesia.

Science is having a hard time accepting that the ancients could have built something this big.

Because Buddhist missionaries arrived in Mexico and California, the pyramids here suggest a connection to other empires and even distant ancient Egyptians who built in the Grand Canyon.

There was once a single worldwide culture connecting most if not all human groups.

The alignments and perfection of Borobudur cannot be explained, and no mortar was used.

The Borobudur site has a map of all its many surprises as it was laid out like an Angkor Wat.

Giant Amitabha Buddha overlooking pyramid

The grand architecture of the layout is only visible from sky-vehicles (vimanas)

This is an overview of the latest discovery, a square (yantra, mandala) pyramid (Newsweek)

What are the secrets of the world's pyramids?  (globalpyramidconference.com)

The similarities of the stonewok in the Americas and the jungles of Cambodia are shocking.

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• Puncak Jaya - another Indonesian mountain pyramid?
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• MSNN.com; edited and expanded by Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

War criminal Kissinger at 100: new crimes

Nick Turse (The Intercept), hosts Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez (democracynow.org, 5/24/23); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kissinger at 100: New war crimes revealed in secret Buddhist Cambodia bombing campaign that set the stage for our "Forever Wars"

(Democracy Now!) May 24, 2023. Latest Shows. A bombshell new investigation from The Intercept reveals that former U.S. National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was responsible for even more innocent civilian deaths during the U.S. War in Cambodia (and War on Vietnam) than was previously known.

Let's bomb this peaceful Buddhist kingdom!

The revelations add to Kissinger's violent résumé that ranges from Latin America to Southeast Asia, where Kissinger presided over brutal U.S. military attacks, incursions, and interventions to put down a "communist revolt" and to develop U.S. influence around the world.

While survivors and family members of these deadly campaigns continue to grieve, American warmonger Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday this week.

Illegal US missions over Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

“This adds to the list of killings and crimes that Henry Kissinger should, even at this very late date in his life, be asked to answer for,” says The Intercept’s Nick Turse, author of the new investigation, “Kissinger’s Killing Fields.”

Democracy Now! also speaks with Yale University’s Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman.

• Transcript: democracynow.org/2023/5/2...

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Buried Secrets of Empire Behind Angkor Wat

Timeline - World History Docs, 12/3/22; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cambodian Theravada Buddhist monks on alms round at Angkor Wat temple complex

The Buried Secrets of the Empire Behind the Angkor Wat | Angkor Rediscovered

(Timeline - World History Documentaries) The stunning temples -- which were built by the Khmer people, like the Angkor Wat ("Temple at Angkor") during the 13th century Angkor Empire's era -- capture the imagination of all.

As experts try to unravel the temples' significance, they uncover mysterious facts about them. From five-headed Lord Shiva to the shrine of the Lord of the Dead Yama, to the discovery of ritual human sacrifices, go on a journey of thrilling exploration of one of the largest cities in the world.

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