Inside Tibet: The Land of Holy Monks

(Arcadia TV World) Inside Tibet: The Land of Holy Monks | The Roof of the World

• Katok Monastery Festival 🏔️ Timeless Traditions of Tibet

Say om: mystical Tibetan sound bath

(Tibetan Vibrations) Parasympathetic Nervous System Reset (cleanse)

China on Tibet under CIA's Dalai Lama

China, it call me a devil, like this, ha ha.

Serfs' Emancipation Day, observed annually on March 28th, is a holiday in the Tibet Autonomous Region of [occupied] China that celebrates the emancipation of "serfs" [commoners under the Dalai Lama] in [Free] Tibet.

The holiday was adopted by the Tibetan legislature on January 19th, 2009, and it was promulgated that same year.

In bed with The Company hoping for peace?

In modern Tibetan history, the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai declared the dissolution of the Tibetan government on March 28, 1959, and he replaced it with the temporary Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region (PCTAR), with the [kidnapped, neutralized, disappeared, and switched] Panchen Lama also replacing the Dalai Lama as its acting chairman [1]. More

• History: Serfdom in Tibet controversy
• CIA gave [military] 'aid' to Tibetan exiles in '60s, files show (Los Angeles Times)
• Intervention gone sour: The CIA's Tibet file [and paid asset the 14th Dalai Lama] (Los Angeles Times)
• CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Dalai Lama on Trump, hot girl rebirth

Ooh, you so hot, girl! If I weren't a monk... Dalai Lama quotes on women (QuotesGram)

Dalai Lama shares controversial views on hot women and talks about 'immoral' Trump

Are you hot enough to be the next Dalai Lama? (Sam Littlefair | Medium.com)

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(SBS News) SBS is an Australian public broadcast service. In a rare interview with the 14th Dalai Lama, he shares his views on world politics and his thoughts on having a female successor, which would be him returning, as the lore of the dalai lama system is that it is the successive reincarnations of the Goddess of Compassion Chenrézik (Guanyin), which is a metamorphosis of the male deva Avalokiteśvara. #SpecialBroadcastingService sbs.com.au/news #SBSnewsAU

Who's the Dalai Lama? John Oliver finds out

Who's the Dalai Lama? (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver/HBO)

• Meanwhile, in the rest of the world: News Headlines
• SBS News Australia, June 27, 2019; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Day in the Life of a Tibetan monk

Tibetan prayer flags in the Himalayan breeze

Hey, what's the difference, Buddhism is Buddhism, right? No. The differences are so vast that they make one form or school nearly unrecognizable from another. There are at least three or four Buddhisms, but many more when culture is factored in. This website is partial to "orthodox" Early Buddhism, the many forms of Theravada (particularly Burmese, Sinhalese, and Thai).

But there's no denying the extreme value of the "reformed" Mahayana schools, with their mix of Hinduism, Taoism, and indigenous shamanism. One should parse what is missionary Buddhism from what practices and beliefs were present before Buddhism arrived and not confuse the Dharma (the Buddha's Teaching) with many other beliefs. The bathwater was not thrown out just because the baby arrived. There are throughlines for all forms of Buddhism no matter how far afield they travel.

Note that Theravada ("Teaching of the Elders") only represents 10% of the Buddhist experience in the world, whereas Mahayana ("Great Vehicle") is a big tent with many disparate members that would not really go together but do because everyone accepts the mainstream by default and some even prefer it.

What's the difference? Would YOU prefer a Buddhism centered on Amitabha, a "Cosmic Buddha" of Infinite Light, or a Queen of Heaven who is the Goddess of Compassion Virg Yin Guanyin -- or a lackluster tradition about an actual historical human guy named Siddhartha Gautama who mostly refuses to do magic and prefers the "miracle of instruction" over the other more flashy miracles?

We think the answer is clear. But people on this planet, by and large, will stick with whatever they were born with. Right, Catholic readers? Lol. We were Catholic, we were Christian, we were Jewish, we were atheists, we love (animistic) shamanism, and now we fancy ourselves lapsed agnostics (like Monty Python said).

So one way the Dhamma (Pali) came to be practiced was the post-Brahmin version that went north. Technically, it is a Mahayana school, but it is actually Himalayan Vajrayana (as distinct from the related Mongolian, Russian, and Siberian versions), where -yana means "vehicle." Let us take a peek at a lama's life in a form of Buddhism so influenced by Bon shamanism that it is all about ritual, black magic, and a whole lot of Hinduism by another name.

(One may ask how Tibetan Vajrayana survived and came to be so widely known. The CIA and the American Empire, at odds with the Chinese Empire, had a lot to do with that). Which Buddhism is the "right" Buddhism? Viva la difference.

Tibetan Monk: A Day in the Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk | Tibet Travel

Tibet Travel (Tibet Vista) What is the daily life of a Tibetan monk or lama? This is one of the most intriguing aspects when we talk about the Tibetan plateau, now a quarter of China's total territory. Learn more at tibettravel.org.

This video lets us have a glimpse of what a monk’s daily life is like in Tibet, which is shown as we followed a head monk, who lives in the Jhoden Monastery, about three hours driving east of the Tibetan (formerly imperial) capital Lhasa.

Follow-up on monk's daily life: The Daily Life of a Monk (2): Gift

He leads a fairly peaceful and simple life. His daily schedule consists of morning Buddha offering (puja), meditation (bhavana), praying for the peace and a good harvest for the villages around his monastery, and night chanting (paritta).

Buddhist monastics are living a happy and simple, but it’s not easy. They need to keep pursuing their Buddhist practices, studies, and praying for the blessings of the Goddess of Mercy Kannon (Kwan Yin, Guanyin, Avalokita).

From the early morning to the late night, see how he will enjoy the day. Hoping all will enjoy the video and let us know what you think. 

Subscribe to channel: bit.ly/2UzibQD. Website: tibettravel.org. Social media: tibettravel.org/tibetan-c.... Facebook/tibettravelorg. IG: tibettravelorg #tibet #monk #tibetanmonk #monastery #dailylife #lhasa

• Tibet Travel (Tibet Vista), July 22, 2020; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sex talk with the Dalai Lama (video)

Controversy of the Dalai Lama's innocent "young boy play" or homosexual child grooming?

Buddhist sex partner or consort tradition for nirvana with the Dalai Lama

How feel about rabbi touch boys? - Excuse me?

(Markham X དམར་ཁམས་ ཧ་) The clergy member (the Western Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo) here questions the current Dalai Lama. She is a British nun based in England. The patriarch acts coy.

She presses him on how Tibetan monks can abuse their disciples using "crazy wisdom" as their excuse or theory behind their misbehavior.

The Dalai Lama, while not putting his tongue in a young boy's mouth for fun, ends up ridiculing her instead of standing behind her and her concern.

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  This tulku's pope allow it?

  [Are we Westerners too uptight, too concerned with something as trivial as sexual exploitation, abuse, or homosexual play? There's that concerning moment in the Tibetan movie Unmistaken Child where a Tibetan monk fondles the private parts of the child on screen, laughing as if the young boy has no idea how much gay fun he is going to have growing up as a lama, learning to fear and avoid females, while growing ever closer to older men and maybe even finding a nice pederasty position, not that that is ever spoken of in public. What are we, Puritans?]

I love boys very much, girl also, tongues soft.

The Dalai Lama has no objection with self-proclaimed Tibetan "Living Buddhas" sexually abusing their white female disciples on the pretext that "tantric sex" is a good way to gain quick nirvana or sudden enlightenment...

The Dalai Lama himself recounts an incident when he was asked by a [hot] blonde, white nun to provide him [her?] an "empowerment" of the third kind, meaning tantric sex, so that she could get into nirvana fast and furiously.

And now for a Jedi mind trick. No one believe such things I do. Believe your lying eyes?

You protect me in international criminal court, right Bushy? - Right, Dolly, and here's a painting.

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Tibetan "Living Buddhas" such as abusive sex-cult leader Chogyam Trungpa [formerly a rinpoche who disrobed to marry a child from England as well as his accused rapist son, Master Sakyong Mipham, he left his Shambhala Buddhist lineage to be pope-king of run who then went on to sexually abuse many nearly bringing the organization/cult to financial ruin] and lusty Sogyal Rinpoche have abused white Vajrayana Buddhist practitioners since as early as the freewheeling 1960s in the name of a bizarre "crazy wisdom" practice as if they were intending to be Milarepa.

The Dalai Lama [like the current pope dealing with child molester Catholic priests in either Latin America or Rome] failed to condemn the acts of such scum.

Dalai Lama backlash for telling boy to suck him

The Dalai Lama says, "Once you decide to be with a Dharma teacher for 12 years, and later you find that he is sexually abusive towards you, you should keep a distance from him/her instead of reporting him/her to the police [that might arrest him/her and embarrass us and all of Mahayana Buddhism and cost us money in a lawsuit that airs out our dirty laundry]."

But is keeping a "distance" enough? Rape, child molestation, and sexual abuse are all illegal, and whoever abuses another deserves a jail sentence instead of some "distance."

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  That why Chinese soldier kill my lamas?

  Buddhist monks, nuns, lamas, and rinpoches are all bound by rules of celibacy (in accordance with the Pratimoksha and Monastic Disciplinary Rules or Vinaya boundaries laid down by the historical Buddha). Celibacy, if violated, means one is instantly (before any proceedings or conviction or even before anyone else finds out about it) and irreversibly not a Buddhist monk anymore (meaning one cannot be re-ordained in this lifetime). But if one wants to say or have people believe that he is now a "Living Buddha" who sets his own rules, that sounds like an additional "defeat" (parajika) offense of lying about attainments (the fourth of the four defeat offenses) no one is enforcing.

Don't ask, don't tell, right, Dolly? They just want $$

But then what if these [white female] disciples know everything and act to seduce monks [against their will just] so that they can later bring lawsuits against them in order to get some money?

You never know... So the Dalai Lama is cautious and doesn't fall on either side of the gender debate, male or female [rapist or victim, Tibetan "Living Buddha" or disciple, defeated monk guilty of sexual contact or innocent student].

• [Sophistry:] Q. 3: Why Vajrayana practice needs female consort? [And will little boys do, you know, for practice before one is able to talk a white woman into it?] Of course, what the teacher is explaining could be true, but who is judging whether or not one is "bound by afflictions" but oneself? So self-deception allows one to have sex while saying, "I'm above desire." Oh, this erection? It's compassion. It's a selfless act. How could you even question me, Tantrika? - OK.
• MarkhamX1100, March 31, 2020; CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Star people visit Ireland, Africa, and Japan

In Ireland there are Tuatha Dé Danann, the "folk of the Goddess Danu," and reptilian Dragons

Ancient Aliens: The star visitors who shared the secrets of civilization (S14, E4) | full episode

Japan's Shinto priest handle kami

(HISTORY) Did humanoid space aliens (akasha-devas, asuras, brahmas) from the tiny star Sirius B visit earthling humans in the distant past, imparting the knowledge of civilization to peoples thousands of miles apart? The evidence suggests that this is exactly what happened, as they are describing the same types of beings with variations of their name sounding more like a matter of pronunciation.

See more in Season 14, Episode 4, "The Star Gods of Sirius." Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule. #AncientAliens

• HISTORY, Aug. 28, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Padmasambhava: Astral Realm Yogi

Padmasambhava: The Yogi from the Astral Realm

(Asangoham) In Tibet, Guru Padmasambhava is generally referred to as Guru Rinpoche, which means “precious master.” Guru Rinpoche is a totally enlightened being, a fully awakened one, a buddha, Tibetans believe.

He did not become enlightened gradually or start practicing the teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni and eventually achieve enlightenment. Guru Rinpoche incarnated as a fully enlightened being.

• [This is odd as the signal feature of a buddha or any arhat (fully enlightened being) in Buddhism is the end of all rebirths and therefore of all further suffering.]

“Through his form, primordial wisdom manifests in the world to benefit all sentient beings,” explains the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center.

His appearance was said to be predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni through 19 different [apocryphal Mahayana] sutras and tantras that contain clear information about his arrival and activities.

The Buddha Shakyamuni [who is a supremely enlightened samma-sam-buddha or "perfectly enlightened one" with all of the attributes necessary for establishing the Dharma and a monastic Sangha to keep alive the Teaching in the world for a long time] is said to have even said that Padmasambhava would be more enlightened than himself. [lol]

According to the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center, the Buddha said: “Eight years after my mahaparinirvana [complete freedom, final nirvana, release from samsara], a remarkable being with the name Padmasambhava will appear in the center of a lotus and reveal the highest teaching concerning the ultimate state of the true nature, bringing great benefit to all sentient beings.” [That sounds like something a perfectly enlightened being would say, doesn't it? Nothing sketchy about it.]

But who exactly was Padmasambhava, really? Padmasambhava was an Indian tantric master who played a major role in bringing [esoteric] Vajrayana Buddhism from India to Tibet during the eighth century.

Though he has been the subject of many legends and myths, little is known about his life from a historical perspective.

One of the things we know is that he helped establish Tibet’s first Buddhist monastery, located in Samye.

He is also considered the founder of the Nyingma school, the oldest of the four major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

In this lineage, and particularly in the Dzogchen teachings (which focus on discovering the ultimate ground of existence), he is considered an important symbol of enlightenment and an object of meditation.

“The word padma is Sanskrit. It was preserved as a Tibetan word and means ‘lotus flower.’ Sambbava means ‘born from.’ Padmasambhava’s usual name in Tibetan is Perna Jungney, translated from the Sanskrit name Padmakara, which means “originated from a lotus.”

When Padmakara was born from a lotus flower and, also, while being led back by King lndrabhuti [his adoptive father], wherever he was set down, a lotus spontaneously sprung up.

The king [would then exclaim], “This child is truly a lotus-born one!” Therefore, he became renowned as Padmakara.... Later, when he became learned in the fields of knowledge and presided as the head of five hundred great panditas [eminent scholars and masters in Tibetan Buddhism], he was known as Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born. Thus, he is indeed named after his manner of birth.”

This explanation was given by Yeshe Tsogyal, who lived in the 8th century CE and was considered the mother of Tibetan Buddhism. #Padmasambhava #tibetanbuddhism #gururinpoche

• Script: Talia Jimenez
• Edit: Aakash
• Voiceover: Karan Nambiar
• Original score: The Green Tara Mantra | The Frequency
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• Asangoham,  YouTube, 8/19/24; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Journey to Tibet: meditation caves (video)

Drak Yerpa Meditation Caves: A great day trip from Lhasa, Tibet

(Ben Cubbage) April 16, 2023: LHASA. The Yerpa Meditation Cave Complex is located a 40-minute drive (30 km) northeast of Tibet's capital Lhasa.

Tibetan idol Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava, at Yerpa

It is a large complex of Buddhist temples, monasteries, and meditation caves nestled on a mountain, the meditation site for some of Tibetan Buddhism's greatest lamas and masters. Some of these Buddhist meditation masters sat for up to three years with very little food or water.

Visiting Drak (Druk, Brag) Yerpa is a great day trip outside of Lhasa. It combines with a visit to Ganden Gompa, a famous Buddhist monastery, in the afternoon.

As one of the holiest centers of Vajrayana Buddhist thought, Drakyerpa Monastery is of particular interest to those interested in Buddhist meditation and to visitors preparing to trek through Tibet.

The elevation of the caves is at 4,400 meters, which makes it a great acclimatization trip when getting ready to make it to Everest Base Camp. It also makes for nice "down time" during a recovery day after a long drive to Mt. Everest.

King Songtsen Gampo and his two foreign queens are said to have meditated here in the Peu Marsergyi Lhakhang. This cave was the site of their discovery of self-arising symbols of Buddha-body, speech, and mind.

Later, Padmasambhava (aka Guru Rinpoche) concealed many holy Buddhist objects around the Yerpa Valley, including the celebrated ritual dagger of Sera (aka Sera Phurzhal). This dagger was eventually found by the treasureseeker Darcharuba at Sewalung.

Padmasambhava spent several months in retreat in the Dawa Puk. The cave is one of the three most significant places of spiritual attainment in all of Tibet (drub-ne).

In the ninth century, Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje stayed at Drak Yerpa in solitary meditation, prior to and after his assassination of the apostate anti-Buddhist King Langdarma.

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• Ben and Rose Cubbage, YouTube, April 16, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhism: Trump as Anger-Eating Demon?

• Skip ahead to The Story of the Anger-Eating Demon

Anger Eating Demons | Ajahn Brahm

I can take it and grow as well as I can dish it out.

(Buddhist Society of Western Australia) Ajahn Brahm talks about the fault-finding mind that only looks at what is wrong with things. The British Theravada monk in the Thai Forest Tradition explains how life doesn’t go wrong. It just goes different or counter to our expectations. People are not "wrong" but different. He recounts two classic ancient Buddhist stories, that of the Anger-Eating Demon and "The Two Arrows."

Support the BSWA in making Buddhist teachings available for free online via Patreon: buddhistsocietywa. Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia (bswa.org). Originally delivered July 10, 2011.

Happy 89th birthday, Dalai Lama (7/6)

Suck it, Boy, suck it in front of everyone. C'mon, suck my tongue! - Isn't it bad enough we kiss?
Dalai Lama tells boy to suck his tongue, Apologizes for teasing mim (mustsharenews.com)

The fun-loving Dalai Lama gets a dance lesson from Christian Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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(DalaiLama.com) Is "His Holiness," the current Dalai Lama Mr. Tenzin Gyatso, lucid enough to rule the USA? Here he is, honored in New York City, a beloved ally of the US military-industrial complex.

• How could Wisdom Quarterly say such things about HHTDL?
• The Dalai Lama, his brother, and Tibetan exiles accepted funding and military training from the CIA to kill Chinese in the '60s, files show (LA Times)
• But this wasn't supposed to get out to the public: Intervention gone sour: The CIA's Tibet file (Los Angeles Times)

Tell them I'm good, Georgie.

Compared to enfeebled, demented, and ever so slightly senile Genocide Joe Biden, Tibet's spiritual leader (and former temporal leader or "god-king," "pope-emperor"), who at one time was in cahoots with the CIA (it's true) as an active "operative," fighting a proxy-war with China, turns 89 today, July 6th, 2024.

I had to do what I had to do for my people.

His great friendship with former U.S. Pres. G.W. Bush, the son of the former CIA Chief and former Pres. G.H.W. Bush, shows how he keeps close to power, a savvy move for a politician though an unsavory one for a spiritual leader, who seems to care not a wit that G.W. and his associates are war criminals.

The CIA paid me lots of $$

The Dalai Lama is not the "pope" of Buddhism. In fact, he is simply the church leader, a cardinal or bishop (rinpoche), of one school of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism known as the Yellow Hats. But his origin story is that he is the 14th rebirth of Avalokiteshvara, the "Bodhisattva of Compassion," neither enlightened nor universally honored even in Tibet. One group (Shugden Dorje followers of the Gelug school) hates him, as hard as that may be to imagine because he is so well spoken and kind, almost as if he were trained to be likeable, a politician, a wise meditator, and a savvy media personality from a very young age. Oh yeah, he was a tulku, after all, a candidate sought out and trained since childhood.

• Why would the Jewish Beastie Boys fund or help promote a film about children inducted into Tibetan monasticism? 'Unmistaken Child' quest at Dalai Lamas' behest (sfgate.com)
• If Wisdom Quarterly could ask him anything, what would it ask?
• Would we have to ask it through Prof. Robert Thurman (tibethouse.us) or actor Richard Gere?
• No, directly ask him himself.
• Oh, in that case, we would ask him, "What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza maker when he ordering his pie?"
• Why?
• Well, that should keep him and his interpreters busy for a good long while.
• No, seriously.
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  We would have to ask him if it had been worth it working for the CIA.
• But that's taboo. He's the king!
• Why is it taboo? He admits it (just as Pope Benedict admitted to being a member of Germany's Hitler Youth in his childhood), even if other well-meaning Buddhists try to hide the fact to preserve his public image. No wonder China is mad.
• Come on, be serious.
• We'd ask him one of these 18 burning questions people want to ask God.
• More serious.
• Okay, we would ask him what George W. Bush is really like. Is he as stupid as he seems, or are BUSH, DICK, and COLON nice fellows, even if they committed war crimes?
• Are you mad at His Holiness?

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  The Dalai Lama loves children just like Jesus.

  No, but seeing him playfully molest (massage the pre-pubescent penis of) the Unmistaken Child in the documentary of the same name was upsetting, making one wonder how similar Tibetan Vajrayana and Roman Catholic monasticism are, two cults dedicated to pederasty so much so that no involved seems to notice how much it would offend the general public not part of their secret sexual rites.
• Does the Dalai Lama to tantric sex? With children?

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  Yab-yum: tantra for holy union

  Sadly, although the Dalai Lama himself tells the truth and says he is just a simple monk who meditates everyday like any other monk (is not enlightened), and that he accepted money for years from the CIA (but it's not something he thinks about, just another source of international funding, probably with no strings attached, none whatsoever), and rather than molesting children in his room, palace, Dharamsala mansion, he exhibits it for all to see how innocent it is for a nearly 90 year old man to swap spit with a male minor, but his handlers and defenders want to lie for him and deny any facts inconvenient to the narrative.

Holy artifact and likeness dispenses blessings

Given what Dr. David Ammon Hillman has uncovered in the Ancient Greek texts about earliest Christianity, is it any wonder what these patriarchies/misogynistic all-boys clubs (the Vatican in the Holy See and Potala Palace in Lhasa) are up to? If the "pontiff" could talk about that, it would be nice. But all the Roman pontiff does is ask, "Who am I to judge?" and the Tibetan one just laughs heartily. This is why church and state should always be kept separate.

Make out with me. Come on, I'm the boss, and I say it's okay to swap spit. Here, you suck first.

Dalai Lama faces backlash over video telling child to ‘suck’ his tongue (atheistrepublic.com)

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Some Tibetans dislike him a lot.

The USA has fought China helped Tibet for a long time, and no one should think that our military and clandestine agencies would allow the Chinese Empire to steal a quarter of its land from its neighbor without a great geopolitical struggle.

This was glorified as was Nazi involvement in Tibet in the movie Seven Years in Tibet with Hollywood movie star Brad Pitt as the principal Nazi befriending the 14th Dalai Lama, though U.S. military involvement -- through CIA agents entering the forbidden land and brokering secret deals with Lhasa -- are conspicuously absent from the American film.

• The Dalai Lama's message on his 89th birthday July 6, 2024, is a birthday message for the current leader of China, the world, and the Company.

• Dalai Lama, (dalailama.com, July 5, 2024); John Oliver, Last Week Tonight on HBO; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly