Nepal on fire: Gen Z uprising (video)

UPDATE: Nepal Gen Z protest | Nepal's revolution: organic or engineered?

(Likely engineered. Nepal is utterly and completely controlled by India.)

Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(wehatethecold) Sept. 9, 2025: On the ground in Nepal, I cannot believe what I saw today. Gen Z protests in Nepal and how they unfolded from my lens. The full journey back from Thailand to the UK on two wheels continues soon once I am able to get out of curfew here and fly the bike. It seems it might be a while until that happens. Love you all. Tell my mother I love her, too. 📹 Extended cut (37 mins): wehatethecold. Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(The Sun) Gen Z protesters torch Nepal parliament building after government bans social media

(On Demand News) Nepal protests: shocking scenes show moment protesters torch Parliament

Nepal's Gen Z protesters thrash ministers and set Parliament on fire | Vantage

• (New York Post) Nepal Parliament building set on FIRE as PM resigns amid deadly protests
• The Jimmy Dore Show

Trekking: Hiking to Padma's Valley

Hiking into Padmasambhava's hidden valley: A pilgrimage with Geshe Tenzin Zopa

Padmasambhava looms large in the Himalayas

(Enter The Mandala) In April 2025, we visited the construction of the World Peace Stupa in Tsum Valley, Nepal. This was the first time we made the journey by foot rather than by helicopter. We were led by Tibetan Buddhist monk Geshe Tenzin Zopa, retracing the route he had walked many times as a child. We hope that through this video viewers can join us in experiencing the blessings of this sacred land. Music at end is "Snow Flower" by Tenzin Choegyal.

• Peace Pagoda(s)

Trek, hike, climb, and focus on the breath.

The Tsum Valley Trek goes to the remotest Himalayan region in Nepal which was once restricted as visitors were kept out. The Tsum Valley lies at the far northern side of Gorkha District in Nepal.

The valley gets its fame from being a sacred place blessed by Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche), misunderstood to be one of the "incarnations" of Lord Buddha [as if a buddha were ever reborn, having by definition already overcome ALL rebirth, suffering, and cyclical "becoming" in samsara, more likely a bodhisattva striving to become Maitreya Buddha].

Padmasambhava (Hemis Gompa)

Buddhists revere this place as sacred, and most living in this region follow the Tibetan form of Vajrayana Buddhism infused with remnants of Bon shamanism. The valley lies in the lap of Ganesh Himal and offers the best view of surrounding areas with a good contrast to glistening peaks in the background. Other peaks like Singi Himal and Himal Chuli may also be observed up close during this trek.

• Tsum Valley Trek | Aiming Adventure (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Enter The Mandala, July 16, 2025; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Summer of Love + Road to Kathmandu (travel)

Road to Kathmandu, 1977 (full version)

(mtdd1948) June 15, 2017: India's famed Taj Mahal is an entirely Islamic architectural masterpiece created by Muslims in a land of rock-cut Buddhist marvels and countless Hindu temples? Let's take an overland "magic bus" trip from stuffy London, England, to wild Kathmandu, Nepal.

1967: The Summer of Love

(Free Documentary - History) April 19, 2024: In 1967 an expressive, colorful musical force painted a backdrop of love, social change, fashion, turmoil, and war.

Son, drop your gun and come back home to us!

The world remembers the "Summer of Love" in 1967 [which we always thought took place in '69] as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of rock music and popular culture arrived in the UK and US.

This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the imperial American troops company as they massacred millions of Buddhists in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, powered the American Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, which opened the hearts and minds of Baby Boomers who had matured into hope-filled teens.

This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change.  “Stick a flower in your hair [or a soldier's rifle at Kent State] and remember that you are Us not Them.”

• WATCH: 1968: Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond...

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• mtdd1948, June 15, 2017; Free Documentary History; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tonight, Siddhartha attains enlightenment

How did the phase of the moon play into it?

Tonight commemorates three (possibly four) amazing events in the life of the Buddha. It was his birthday under the month of Vesak's moon one year. Twenty-nine years later, it was the night he decided to let go and renounce it all to go on a quest for enlightenment to make an end of suffering for everyone. (This would mean that his son Rahula had the same birthday). Six years after that, under the full moon of the same month, he experienced the great awakening of a supremely enlightened teacher. Then 45 years after that, under that very same moon, he made an end of all further rebirth and suffering by reclining into final nirvana. All that happened on full moon of this night, different years, same moon. Because he was reborn, because he renounced, because he practiced without giving up, Siddhartha became the Buddha, which means "the Enlightened One." Without this full moon, without these trees (a different kind of tree being involved in each event (sal, banyan, bodhi, and twin sals), would it have happened? We can only hope it would have. The way the story (told as an allegory) of the Buddha's life gets retold, it would be safe to say that Siddhartha became the Buddha in the last watch of the night, at dawn (with the dawning of insight) after a long, dark night of struggle with Mara* and his legions of ogres (yakkhas).

Light arose, knowledge arose = enlightenment.

What does it mean that the wandering ascetic Siddhartha Gautama (Siddhattha Gotama), 35, having renounced his palace and kingdom six years earlier, at age 29, had a Great Awakening (maha-bodhi)?

It means that after six years of struggle as a yogi learning the meditative absorptions but following the wrong path of penance through severe austerities (tapas), made a profound breakthrough to the ultimate Truth.

Having nearly died in his strenuous efforts to overcome the mental defilements, blaming the body as if it were the slave's fault that the master was all along the defiled one dragging it along, it occurred to Siddhartha to not be averse to pleasure. So long had this been his custom that it seemed wrong even to delight in the bliss of absorption (the jhanas, samma-samadhi). Realizing that such supersensual pursuits are blameless, not connected to sensuality, and followed by the wise, he pursued them and found what had eluded him for so long.

While his five wandering ascetic companions thought he had softened and given up, he set off on his own with the help of the milkmaid Sujata and her servant. They nursed him back to health, feeding him solid food. This disgusted his companions -- eating over fasting, receiving dana (donations) from the hand of a woman. Was this any way for a recluse, hermit, and wandering spiritual nomad to behave?

How did Siddhartha become "the Buddha"?

Scythians (Sakas) of Gandhara

It was! Not only did Siddhartha realize that the body was not the enemy but a potential vehicle to enlightenment, his dingy and clouded mind brightened, and he was able to think more clearly. He realized that he had been avoiding the very Path that avoids both extremes of hedonism on the one hand and severe asceticism on the other, the Middle Way.

He recalled that age 7 he had spontaneously entered such an absorption at the Spring Festival while his father, the King Suddhodana (a Scythian/Shakyian chieftain in the Saka Land called Kapilavastu or Kapilavatthu), was engaged in the ploughing ceremony.

That absorption was possible because he was left alone under the shade of tree by his nannies, who were more interested in joining the festivities. Left to his own devices, he did what he had always done in past lives -- enjoyed the serenity of samatha meditated. (It's interesting that the words samana, "wandering ascetic," and samatha, "calm meditation," are so much alike since one is primarily engaged in the other).

Mahabodhi Marvels: A Spiritual Journey Through Bihar's Sacred Grounds

This Doctrine is for the wise with eyes to see

This may have made him a "saint" (holy man, sadhu, bhagavan) in the eyes of his fellows at the time, but it in no way made him a "saint" (arahant, arhat, enlightened one) in the Buddhist sense. For that, Siddhartha used the foundation of serenity, with the temporary mental purity it provided, and added insight (vipassana or "clear seeing") practices. Namely, he entered one or more of the eight absorptions, emerged, and practiced systematic mindfulness (satipatthana) on one of four themes, today referred to as the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. This was the Dependent Origination practice he rediscovered, as other buddhas before him had found.

Asking the question, "Why is there suffering (dukkha, disappointment, pain, misery)?" he realized the answer lay in a causal chain of 12 links: Present suffering is due to... list of the 12 causes. The general realization is that ALL things arise from causes: "When this is, that comes to be. When this is not, that does not come to be." So to put it less simply:

1. Why is there aging, decay, death (dukkha, loss, woe)?
2. It is because there is rebirth. Why is there rebirth?
3. It is because there is becoming. Why is there becoming?
4. It is because there is clinging. Why is there clinging?
5. It is because there is craving (greed, desire). Why is there craving?
6. It is because there is feeling (sensation). Why is there feeling?
7. It is because there is contact. Why is there contact?
8. It is because there is sense (the six sense bases). Why is there sense?
9. It is because there is name-and-form. Why is there name-and-form?
10. It is because there is consciousness. Why is there consciousness?
11. It is because there is volitional formation [karma, fabrication, construction, intention, choices, doing]. Why is there volitional formation?
12. It is because there is ignorance (delusion, illusion, unknowing).

Therefore, IF ignorance (avijja) is the problem, what is the solution? The solution is enlightenment (clearly seeing how things really are) because this leads to letting go. Who would be interested in such a trap after seeing the danger, folly, and emptiness inherent in it? This letting go (nekkhamma, abandoning, releasing, relinquishing, internal-renunciation) at such a profoundly foundational level) is why the Truth sets one free. It is not an act of willful doing.

We cannot will ourselves to let go of everything with our heads (intellect) and expect that the heart will really follow suit. Try it. If it were so, any smart person could be free just by study and an intellectual grasp or understanding. It is because once we see Truth as it is (things as they really are), the letting go happens naturally.

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  Who wants a [p**p] burger?

  EXAMPLE: Imagine being a little boy. You see your older brother holding a fat burger in front of everyone craving it, begging for it, ready to fight each other to get it. You see it, want it, and are ready to beg or fight for it yourself -- you can't help it -- but you're smart. So you reason with him, "Brother, let me have it; you love me, and we're brothers, and you would do anything good to help your brother, as brothers do. So let me have it."
• "No, Dummy, get out of here!" he says to you, as older brothers like to say. He knows you. He knows you're going to beg and fight and plead like a clingy dummy like all the rest of them. So out of love, he tells you the secret, which he knows there's no possible way you're going to believe just by him telling you. So he simultaneously tells you and shows you: "It's poop in the center, look." What happens to your craving, clinging, and desire right at that instant? It evaporates, shrinks back, is replaced by disgust and letting go (of that desire), completely abandoning it. That wouldn't have happened if he had just TOLD you. But since you saw it yourself, there's no doubt. And you know he loves you and wants the best for you, and he is holding it away from everyone. "What, but, how?" you stutter, but who cares how or why or when? There's only the what. And the what is that it's poop. Where has all your desire gone for it? He has liberated you from the flesh-craving, from that clinging, from that avarice for food of any kind, until your customary delusions and hungers return.

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  SLIDE: Worms poke out of hamburger on lettuce

  That example is too harsh. So let's change it. Let's say, what he shows you is not directly poop between buns but a microscope slide of what's really in flesh-burger: worms, rot, traces of feces and salmonella, pus, uric acid, sweat, mucus... Now where's your craving, your clinging, your desire? You realize he really does love you and has been telling you all along, but until you saw it with your own eyes, you would've never believed it. You've been eating this cr*p the whole time. That's what flesh is; that's how the sausage (churned burger) is made. *Vomit* You feel love and gratitude for your brother for NOT giving you what you were sure you wanted and begged for and were ready to fight for. You feel love for him because instead he gave you what you didn't know you needed so desperately -- wisdom and compassion. Out of compassion for you, he shared his wisdom by giving you a "clear seeing" of what was really there all along. 

It is like dropping a feather (or a modern plastic bag) into a fire. It shrinks back, pulls away, retracts by a natural reaction. It does not will to shrink away. It just does. The heart/mind will let go of all conditioned (composite) "things." And there is only one [unconditioned element] that is not a thing and therefore does not have all the faults and attributes of things -- and that is nirvana.

I was obscured by clouds, then all became clear.

Nirvana (nibbana) is not enlightenment (bodhi) as so many scholars and ordinary people seem to loosely equate. Awakening gives a glimpse of what has never before been seen in this entire Round of Rebirths (samsara), this Wheel of Life and Death: real freedom (liberation) from any further rebirth or suffering. The dependently originated formation (fabrication, construction) of these Five Aggregates clung to as "self" is no more -- and one is completely freed. This comes in stages, which may all happen following after the other or be spread out over as many as seven more rebirths. These are the Paths and Fruits (magga-phala), the stages of enlightenment, of those who have become the "noble ones."

*The struggle with Mara

Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Mara

Mara ("Death," "Obstacles," "Defilements") Devaputra in Buddhism is a malignant being of light (a Satan figure), a king of the ogres (yakkhas), who tried to stop Prince Siddhartha from Awakening (becoming enlightened and liberated from the Sensual Sphere) by trying to seduce him with his "daughters" (Lust, Discontent, and Passion) and an army of ogres.

In various legends, visions of beautiful women are said to be Mara's daughters [1]. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is the personification of Death, rebirth, and sensual desire [2].

Western Buddhist monk Ven. Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment" [3].

Mara is Yama the King of the Dead's fearsome persona. And all beings associated with him, darkness and death, become forces of Mara. These forces consist of yakkhas, rakshasas, pisacas, aratis, asuras, and animals [4]. More

Vesak Day | So Sri Lanka

Ven. Sanghamitta brings Bodhi tree

(Sri Lanka Tourism) The Vesak festival commemorates three events in the Buddha’s life: his birth, his enlightenment, and his passing. It is a joyful season in Sri Lanka.

It is a festival of light that dispels the darkness of ignorance and a time to recall his teachings, the Dhamma, of wisdom, compassion, and peace.

This Vesak, let us appreciate humanity and practice peaceful coexistence that will raise us to greater heights. To good health!

#HappyVesakDay #Vesak2021 #SoSriLanka #VesakFestivalnSriLanka #VisitSriLanka #ExperienceSriLanka #ExploreSriLanka #SriLanka

• Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey (film)

Hannah Nydahl – Ein buddhistischer Weg zur Freiheit (pinterest.de)

The full documentary: Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey

Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey (hannah)

(Kino Lorber) Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey tells the story of Hannah Nydahl and her adventure bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West.

From her wild and idealistic roots as a hippie in Copenhagen, the film follows Hannah and her husband Ole to the hedonistic [Buddhist but officially Hindu] city of Kathmandu, Nepal.

Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey - Hannah

This is where in 1968 they became two of the first Western students of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje) -- the first consciously reincarnated (tulku) lama of Tibet, and the man who would change their lives forever.

At the heart of the film lies the unique and inspiring love story of Hannah and Ole and their unwavering dedication to bring Buddhism to the West.

• Hannah Nydahl (buddhismus.org)

16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje with Pope

From Europe and North America, through the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia, to being kidnapped by guerrillas in South America, the film portrays the path of a great woman at the forefront of a turbulent, ever-changing world.

DVD: kinolorber.com/product/hannah... Rent or purchase digitally: kinonow.com/film/hannah-buddh... #movie #film #documentary

• Hannah Nydahl via KinoLorber.com, Nov. 1, 2022 (Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey trailer); Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Quake in Tibet, Nepal, India, China (live)

• 2025 Tibet earthquake (Wiki)

China Earthquake LIVE: Death toll from powerful earthquake in Tibet reaches 126 | WION LIVE 

The wisdom eyes of the Buddha, Nepal

(WION) Started streaming Jan. 7, 2024: Bhutan has also been affected. A 6.8-magnitude quake [updated to 7.1] struck China's remote Tibet region on Tuesday morning. [This is disputed territory claimed by an independent Tibet, nibbled at by India, touching Nepal, not far from Bhutan, but invaded and occupied by Chinese forces.] The death toll is rising to at least 53 [at least 126 with at least as many injured], state media is reporting. US media states that a magnitude of 7.1 earthquake jolted China-Nepal border. The earthquake jolted Dingri County in Xigaze City (Shigatse), located in the Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, at 9:05 am local time. In addition to the confirmed fatalities, 62 others have been injured. The powerful tremor has left a trail of destruction, and rescue efforts are underway. #nepal #china #tibet

• BBC VIDEO: Massive quake hits near Buddhist holy Xigaze, near Mount Everest

7.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 53 people in Tibet | DW News

Powerful earthquake rocks Tibet and parts of Nepal

Aerial view of Boudhanath, Nepal

(CNN) Jan. 7, 2025: More than 100 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of northern India. The 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 9:05 am local time at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) and was followed by multiple aftershocks, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). #CNN #News

CCTV captures moment 7.1 magnitude quake strikes China’s Tibet region

Tibet earthquake: Tibetan govt blames China for deadly quake | WION Pulse

Foreshocks? 11 earthquakes hit days ago

China’s Yinchuan hit by 11 earthquakes in 24 hours; millions flee, roads and rails jammed

(China Observer) Jan. 4, 2025: ✪ On Jan. 2 and 3, 2025, Yinchuan in Ningxia, China, experienced 11 earthquakes within 24 hours. The strongest measured 4.8 magnitude. The tremors were also felt in Shaanxi and Gansu. Although the magnitudes were not high, the frequent and widespread quakes, combined with shallow epicenters, led to strong tremors in some areas, causing public panic. Join channel: @chinaobserver0 #chinaobserver

Our Jewish Passover in Buddhist Nepal

Ah, the hippies and free love movement were renewed on Freak Street in old Kathmandu

Passover Seder in Kathmandu, Nepal, incorporated Buddhist and Jewish traditions

American JewBu (E. Sigalow)

(Forward) Buddhists are Jews? Wait a minute, Jews are Buddhists and they play bluegrass music? There is an old phenomenon from at least the 1960s in the U.S. (see The Jew in the Lotus) and the 1st century B.C.E. in Palestine (see Jesus Lived in India), when Jews born into Judaism (raised in a very secular way, often with a phobia about too orthodox and strict an interpretation of this Semitic school, given that many Middle Eastern and North African peoples are Semites, not just German Ashkenazi Jews and other Palestinians in the geopolitical but otherwise nonexistent "Middle" East) sought spirituality and like the Buddha and Jesus sought it in the mystic East.

Many Jews former beat poets love Zen Buddhism

The lure of India for young people on a spiritual quest is hard to underestimate. It is very old. Sure, Judaism has its own form of mysticism (just the same way regular Islam has mystical Sufism), but Kabbalah is creepy and more European-occultism than the magic and mystery of ancient India and its neighbor Esoteric Buddhist Tibet.

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  Jewish? Do I look Jewish? I'm All Religions

  Ram Dass (formerly Harvard's Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., who almost singlehandedly started the Sixties along with Howard Bloom, who claims he did singlehandedly start them), famously said, when asked if he was Jewish (because he dressed and wore his hair like his groovy Hindu "love guru" Neem Karoli Baba), "I'm only Jewish on my parents' side."

Prince Siddhartha (Gandhara)

Prince Siddhartha was born in Scythia (Saka) in ancient Gandhara, in the northwest frontier of proto-India; he traveled east on a quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Jesus Lived in India (Kersten)

King Jesus (humble Yeshua the Nazarene) was born either in pharaoh's Egypt or a small Podunk town known as Nazareth in Palestine (popularly sold to us as "Israel," which is located in North Africa, although this is obscured by ages of propaganda that forces the imagination to ignore that what is called "Israel" today is all on the African continent and in ancient times may have extended throughout Kush and Ethiopia, which at that time included Eritrea, in Kemet).

Foreskin's Lament (Shalom Auslander)

The Man will lie to us and separate us, pit Jew (Chosen) against Christian (Gentile) and play the ultimate victim with everyone against the self-isolating, exclusionary Jews. The work of Shalom Auslander is eye-opening in this regard. Eric Dubay (ericdubay.com and at bitchute.com) says the world has historically hated "the Jews" and not for nothing. They have been thrown out of country after country, leading to the saying "wandering Jew." This is blamed on the God of the Jews, who is punishing them for their sinfulness (lit. "missing the mark") and wickedness (evil) and most of all their kvetching (murmuring which really means bellyaching and endless complaining). The God just won't stand for it.

Our troubles did not begin in...

But will Buddhists be pitted against the Jews? If Jews behave the same way they have in other countries, sure. But just look at Thailand and other places with secret Jewish enclaves as they set up businesses, network, try to form monopolies that would be illegal elsewhere, keep others out of certain industries, and clean up all with government help and protection.

Every country wants a piece of the financial pie. And Jews, particularly the secular ones, are like the Jains in India, a tiny fraction of the population with disproportionate wealth and influence for their numbers.

Howard Bloom started the 60s?

Why? The religious rules they do not personally practice, but the very rules that made their community prosper, is the answer. Moses had a DMT vision (using Syrian Rue and seeing the burning bush) and said behave this way. Mahavira had a vision and said practice ahimsa, that is, abstain from doing any kind of harm (such as farming, soldiering, ranching, butchering, etc.), leaving only a few businesses to undertake, namely, banking and jewelry dealing. Remind you of any other small religious group?

• For more on this story, visit forward.com/culture/542670...

Jews in St. Louis celebrate Passover Seder

(FOX 2 St. Louis) Passover Seder (a kind of Last Supper) is observed by Jews on the 15th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. A local family invited FOX 2's crew into their home to show their [largely German Ashkenazi Jewish] beliefs and traditions.

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The Jew in the Lotus: What does Judaism have to do with Buddhism?

The Jew in the Lotus (Rodger Kamenetz, 1995)

The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India is a famous book by Rodger Kamenetz published in 1995. It has a 4.5 out of 5 stars after 247 ratings.

While accompanying eight high-spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the 14th Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought.

Jesus (St. Issa) traveled to India?

Along the way he encounters Ram Dass (former Jewish Harvard professor Dr. Richard Alpert, who got fired because of LSD then went tripping around India as a hippie and became a cultural icon after he met and became devoted to Hindu love guru Neem Karoli Baba in India) and Hollywood actor Richard Gere, and dialogues with leading rabbis and Jewish thinkers, including Zalman Schacter, Yitz and Blue Greenberg, and a host of religious and disaffected Jews and JuBus (Jewish-Buddhists).

This amazing journey through Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and Judaism leads Kamenetz to a renewed appreciation of his living Jewish roots. The Jew in the Lotus

• Text by Sheldon S., Shauna Schwartz, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly 2024; video by FOX 2 St. Louis; April 5, 2023; main video by Forward, April 10, 2023; author Rodger Kamenetz (amazon.com)