2026 Buddhist Film Festival (6/16-30)

A 15-day film festival co-presented by Tricycle Magazine and the Pure Land Foundation runs from June 16–30, 2026. All are invited to join for Tricycle’s third annual Buddhist Film Festival, offering five feature-length films and five short films from across the Buddhist world that can be watched all festival long. Tricycle is pleased to co-present this year’s festival with the Pure Land Foundation. Tickets are $40 for general admission and $30 for subscribers. — Get tickets below. Please note that the festival is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. TICKETS

(Asangoham) What are the ancient teachings of Pure Land Buddhism?

• Tricycle's Buddhist Film Festival
• Tricycle.org; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen Bradshaw (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why is Russia so doggone BIG? (video)

Why is Russia so darn BIG?
(Johnny Harris) March 24, 2021: The story of moving east and just...not stopping.

Korea in Asia is beautiful and close by

Ways to support: Patreon (johnnyharris). Custom presets and LUTs: https://store.dftba.com/products/john... Where to find JH: Instagram (johnny.harris), Tiktok (johnny.harris), Facebook (johnnyharrisvox). Iz's (Johnny’s wife’s) channel (iz-harris). How Johnny makes videos: Tom Fox makes his music. Work with him here: https://tfbeats.com/. He makes maps using this AE Plugin: aescripts.com/geolayers/?aff=77. All the gear he uses: izharris.com/gear-guide. His courses: Learn a language (brighttrip.com/course/language). Visual storytelling: https://www.brighttrip.com/courses/vi...

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Soviet Union, empire, Russia, Central Asia, Far East, Vlad Putin, Czar, communist regime, capitalism, European, country, size, largest, Canada, Moscow, Mongols, Turkey, Korea, China

Buddhist cult? Bliss & Wisdom, PEI, Canada

(Spoke Media) Are Taiwanese Tibetan Buddhist monks taking over Prince Edward Island?

What is this, a cult, a club, a sect?

Bliss and Wisdom (Chinese 福智, Pinyin Fúzhì) is a Taiwanese Buddhist [that practices Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism] organization operating in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

Founded in 1991 by Master Jih-Chang, the organization arrived in the Canadian province in 2008 and has come under scrutiny for its significant acquisitions of land.

• Buddhism in Taiwan
• Buddhism in Canada

A citizens group estimates that Bliss and Wisdom has acquired over 17,000 acres of land in crowded Prince Edward Island, contravening the province's land protection legislation.

• Bliss & Wisdom, largest Tibetan Buddhist group in Taiwan faces crisis (Tibet Post International)

The provincial government of Prince Edward Island launched an investigation into Bliss and Wisdom's landholdings in February 2025.

The organization has extensive business holdings in the areas of jewelry, electronics, organic farming, translation, and exporting. They operate a natural foods retailer based in Taiwan called Leezen, which opened its first overseas store in Charlottetown in 2016. More: Bliss and Wisdom: Buddhist organization

• Spoke Media, Jan. 19, 2026; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Russia is BIG and full of native Asians

There are Asian Russians, Russian Asians?

What it's like being Asian Russian in 2025 and why you've never heard about us 🤨

(Chimka Travels) Dec. 2, 2025: Most people think all Russians look Slavic…until they meet me or others like me. I’m an Asian Russian, specifically a Buryat-Mongolian. My video about Asian Russians blew up with over 10 million views. So in this episode, I’m finally explaining: 💬

(This is Guzel) What it's like being non-Slavic Asian Russian

• Who Asian Russians actually are 🌏
• Why you’ve never seen us in Western (or Russian) media 📍
• Where we live inside Russia 💬
• Why English language creates confusion (“Russian,” one word = two meanings) 🏔️
• The Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East 🇲🇳
• My Buryat-Mongol identity
• And comments like, “We got Chinese Russians before GTA6.”

By the end of this video, viewers will understand a part of Russia almost nobody talks about.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:37 Who are Asian Russians?
• 02:34 Russian federal subjects
• 03:23 Identity: Russian or Buryat?
• 03:45 Why people get confused
• 04:18 Why they’ve never heard of Asian Russians
• 04:37 Buryat-Mongolian or Buryat?
• 05:36 Erasure of the “-Mongolian” part during USSR phase
• 06:29 Why I don’t look Russian
• 06:50 Why I started talking about this
• 07:18 Taiwan’s “Russian Girl” stereotype — storytime
• 08:56 Future content and upcoming Mongolia vlogs
• 09:25 Ending and goodbye

Follow me: 👉 Instagram: chimka_travel 👉 TikTok: chimka_travels ❤️Support: paypal.me/Chimkas, coff.ee/chimka_travel 📩 For business inquiries: chimka.travel@gmail.com #AsianRussian #Asian #Russian #Russia #Sakha #Yakut# Yakutia# Buryat# Buryatia #BuryatMongol #Indigenous

Why is Russia so darn BIG?
(Johnny Harris) March 24, 2021: The story of moving east and just...not stopping.

• (Eli from Russia) Former USSR (Soviet Union) Russia's hidden gem in Far East: the Kuril Islands

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Soviet Union, empire, Russia, Central Asia, Far East, Vlad Putin, Czar, communist regime, capitalism, European, country, size, largest, Alaska, Canada, Arctic Circle, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Mongolia, Turkey, Korea, China

• Eli from Russia, Dec. 13, 2025; Johnny Harris, March 24, 2021; Guzel; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Leaving behind White supremacy, almost

Former right-wing extremist now warns others about adopting extreme ideologies (doc)

Far Right Network in Canada

(wocomoHUMANITY) UNITED STATES. Brad Galloway was a white 18-year-old punk rocker in and out of trouble with the law, a street brawler already at his fourth high school, a kid without direction, and therefore a prime target for a neo-Nazi recruiter.

Promising comradeship in a gang of “like-minded” guys, a place where Brad could finally find what he wanted most: belonging.

I really want white Canada to be my 51st state.

SKINHEAD tells Brad’s story – how he spent 13 years in “the movement,” climbing the ranks from skinhead rabble-rouser to the Canadian boss of an ultra-violent U.S. gang called Volksfront.

Brad has been out for five years, raising a family and getting his university degree in criminology. But most of all, he’s been working on leaving behind the hate groups that defined who he was for so much of his life – and watching those groups come back to life.

• Life After Hate website: LifeAfterHate.org (McAleer)

Babe, I'm Hitler in Mein Kampf

“I call them white supremacy groups because that's all it is,” says Brad Galloway. “What they are presenting as new is actually a very old idea of white marginalization. “I think my message is this: understand by adopting these types of extreme ideologies, that you are signing up for losing those years of your life.  You will definitely lose time and you will be affecting others negatively. You will lose that time in your life.”

CHAPTERS

▷ 00:00 - Introduction

▷ 01:20 - From a typical Canadian kid to the president of a white supremacist organization

▷ 05:03 - Warren Kinsella, author of Web of Hate: The Far Right Network, talks about far-right groups in Canada

▷ 07:20 - Manipulation and seduction: How people become far-right white supremacists

▷ 18:37 - Donald Trump and anti-immigration

▷ 21:23 - Brad Galloway's journey leaving his skinhead life behind

▷ 28:11 - Setting up a Volksfront chapter in Vancouver

▷ 35:15 - American academic Randy Blazak interviews another former skinhead

▷ 38:27 - The importance of finding belonging elsewhere

▷ 42:14 - From meeting in pubs to meeting online

▷ 45:12 - Discussion between a former white supremacist gang leader and a former Black gang leader ▷ 51:15 - Credits

Neo-Nazism could never happen in US Capitol

FILM: SKINHEAD steps back and takes a look at the scope of racist movements not only in the USA but in Canada, too. SKINHEAD is largely Brad’s story – his journey into a movement, his journey out, and what he sees happening next in this hyper-partisan age of racial tension under Pres. Trump. Original title: Skinhead. Directed by Andrew Gregg © 2018, licensed by Jambika.

ABOUT: Wocomo HUMANITY is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion. Subscribe to wocomoHUMANITY: goo.gl/5Sp36B. Follow on Facebook: wocomo. Documentaries about people and cultures from around the globe: wocomoHUMANITY offers high-quality content which is produced by leading production companies. Check out other channels to watch high quality documentaries: ▷ wocomoDOCS: wocomodocs ▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: wocomowildlife ▷ wocomoHISTORY: wocomohistory ▷ wocomoTRAVEL: wocomotravel ▷ wocomoCOOK: wocomocook #Trump #documentary #farright #skinhead #Oregon #fulldocumentary #Canada #US #wocomohumanity.

• wacomoHUMANITY, Nov. 8, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Yamamoto wins it for LA Dodgers, Japan

Series was won by two incredible double plays.

Dodger pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto named World Series MVP (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

The most insane World Series Game 7 ever seen | Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Dodgers are World Series champions after defeating Blue Jays in dramatic Game 7 | LAist

• Good sportsmanship 👼⚾🧢 means being friends after a fair win. Someone has to lose in capitalist competitions, and everyone knows that going in (only no one knows it might be them).

What is dukkha?

Dukkha: disappointment, not getting what one wants, suffering, ill, woe

(seerasan) Baseball is as Japanese as rice and Zen or mamasan and sushi

Happy b-day, Fernando's ghost

Mexican pitching marvel Fernando Valenzuela comes through for the Dodgers again. Although his contribution this year was posthumous, it is his birthday and it is the Day of the Dead, and something unseen pushed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to greatest tonight. It has to seem supernatural to overcome the odds and win the biggest game of his life. There may be trouble in celebratory Los Angeles, still reeling from Halloween Carnival in West Hollywood tonight, Samhain trick-or-treaters going all night, and the seasonal festivities of Christian-Pagan syncretism.

• VIDEO: The Dodgers' hopes rest on Yamamoto

MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, born 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history.

Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons.

Shohei Ohtani is having fun, and that's gotta hurt.

He also threw two no-hitters and was a key figure in Orix’s 2022 Japan Series championship.

Following the 2023 season, Yamamoto was posted to MLB and signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers—the largest ever for a pitcher at the time.

In his rookie MLB season, he contributed to Los Angeles’ 2024 World Series title, becoming the first player in baseball history to win a World Series, an Olympic gold medal, and a World Baseball Classic title.

In 2025, Yamamoto was named to his first All-Star game. Internationally, he has represented Japan in multiple tournaments, earning gold medals at the 2019 WBSC Premier12, the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2023 World Baseball Classic. More

(Fan First Jays) Losing is unreal as Dodger fans shoot fireworks

Dodger fans react to World Series win for the ages | FOX 11 LA

• Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the clutch: every pitch the World Series MVP threw in Game 7 😱 | 山本由伸ハイライト
• Dodgers vs. Blue Jays Game 7 Highlights 🔥 World Series on FOX

Short summary: What happened?!

(MLB Vault) Ending of every Dodgers World Series championship (9 titles between 1955-2025)

• Somewhere there's a Shohei Ohtani Industrial Complex, and that somewhere is Japan, extending to other islands like Hawaii and California (which is also an island according to many European maps)
• Baseball Authority; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Dodgers vs. Blue Jays at end of world

The stakes: If the Los Angeles Dodgers win tonight (Day of the Dead, Nov. 1, 2025), they’ll be the first team to win consecutive titles since the New York Yankees did it from 1998 to 2000.

Meanwhile, the Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back championships in 1992 and 1993 — and they're back in the series for the first time in 32 years.

Help from the Other Side

If Toronto wins, it will be ecstasy for the country of mighty Canada, smearing it in the face of the Orange Dictator in his Demolished House commanding his ICE Gestapo.

• Do the LA Dodgers have a supernatural edge tonight thanks to their large Latin/Asian fan base? YES! Today, the Mexican Day of the Dead, is Mexican super-pitcher Fernando Valenzuela's birthday, and the greatest living Dodger pitcher, Shintoist ONE MAN SHOhei Ohtani is pitching tonight. Nando willing, tonight is a cinch for the Dodgers!
• What makes the Dodgers so good? It's the best team money could buy. And this is a capitalist country with a capitalist game that glorifies competition, rivalry, violent grit (sometimes breaking out in massive gang fights on the field when they lose and a little sports hooliganism on the streets when they win).

How did Shohei Ohtani happen?

(Search Party) Shohei Ohtani, #17, is the $700 million dollar man

World's greatest pitcher and hitter: S. Ohtani

How we got here: The Blue Jays on Friday seemed poised to tie the game in the ninth inning until Dodgers infielder Kiké Hernández initiated an incredible double play to end the game and secure a trip to Game 7.

Where things stand: The last game, the tiebreaker, will be at the covered Rogers Centre in Toronto, where the team of champions will claim Major League Baseball's Commissioner’s Trophy. More: World Series Game 7: The winner takes all as Dodgers seek a repeat title tonight (LAist.com)

Orange Dictator humiliates USA in Asia

(Comedy Central Africa) South Korea literally crowns the Clown President with king's headgear

YMCA greetings for a king | The Daily Show

Why do we Americans dishonor our king?

(Comedy Central Africa) Oct. 31, 2025: "The village people must be so proud that their song became America's official presidential anthem" 🤭 when all they did was write a song about getting r*iled at the gym. | The Daily Show on Comedy Central, DStv Ch122

• MLB Highlights, 10/31/25; LAist.com; Desi Lydic, The Daily Show; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Dodgers' hopes rest on Yamamoto

Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Los Angeles is on edge and ready to riot if their team the beloved Dodgers fail to win Game 6. It's Devils' Night in WeHo (West Hollywood), home of the Halloween Carnivale, a night of LGBTQI+ revelry and possible debauchery, although this year they have shortened it by an hour so that it ends long before midnight, the Witching Hour. The keiki (children) are dodging cars on the suburban streets of the megalopolis as they run their culturally-approved shakedown for dopamine hits via sugary candies all across LA's 88 cities and countless neighborhoods.

The great Japanese pitcher will start Game 6, and with so much at stake, Dodger fans have to wonder if the stars are aligned. Avoid gambling. It's rigged. The fix is in. It's an emotional rollercoaster ride.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto's lifestyle IS NOT what you think!

(MLB Lifestyle) Oct. 25, 2025: From the bright lights of Tokyo to the star-studded streets of Hollywood, Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s story goes far beyond the mound. This video uncovers how one of Japan’s greatest pitchers rose to global fame, conquered Major League Baseball expectations, and built a life worthy of the spotlight. Learn where his journey began, how he made history in Japan, and what makes his transition to the Dodgers so remarkable — all without giving away the twists that make his story unforgettable. 🎬 Watch until the end for a deeper look into the man behind the legend.

👇 Subscribe for more exclusive MLB lifestyle stories every week. #YoshinobuYamamoto #Dodgers #MLBLifestyle #BaseballJapan

• Dodgers Nation, Oct. 31, 2025; MLB Lifestyle; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Hollywood's Halloween vs. Irish Samhain

University of Edinburgh, Oct. 31, 2016

Samhain (SOW-in) or Sauin is a Gaelic festival in Ireland that falls on the Mexican Day of the Dead, Nov. 1st, marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year [1].

It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name for November. Celebrations begin on Halloween, the evening of October 31st, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset [1].

Let's go apologize to the witches in Salem, MA

(History on Maps) History of [Christian/Celtic] Halloween (animation)

Hollow weenie "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - Dr. Seuss

Keith David, "Oogie Boogie," live for 2025 at the Hollywood Bowl

Richard Darbois, Henri Poirier: Le Boogie Blues ("L'Étrange Noël de Jack")

"This is Halloween," Danny Elfman (metal cover by Clint Robinson)

(Rain Paris) "This is Halloween" rock cover

The seasons and festivals of Ireland

This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa.

Historically it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Its Brittonic Celtic equivalent is Calan Gaeaf in Wales. More

The Citizens of Halloween: "This is Halloween" (from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas")

• Jack nabs Santa | Nightmare Before Xmas | Disney Kids

(DisneyMusicVEVO) Oct. 14, 2021: Stream “Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” on Disney+, the only place to stream favorites from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more [because there's absolutely nowhere else to stream. All hail the Disney Corporation!]

(BbaGumpSkrimp) The Making of The Nightmare Before Christmas

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

It was a time of innocent childishness and evil.

Remember waiting all October for Linus to see the Great Pumpkin? This Halloween classic wasn’t just wholesome—it changed American (and Canadian) TV forever. From hidden gags to production secrets and the real reason it almost got banned, here are 10 wild facts about It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! most people didn’t know. Relive the magic of a simpler time. More

Disney Halloweens used to be easy: skeletons

(Lyric Noel) "This is Halloween" (female metal cover)

• Gho$temane; The Vintage Vault (1966); Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Disney; Holiday History; BbaGumpSkrimp; Ghostemane; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Israel attacks Gaza, alters fake peace plan

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free...no matter what lies Israel tells the world

Israeli strikes on Gaza continue as ceasefire negotiators head to Egypt: Blame Trump and Bibi

Israeli strikes on Gaza continue as ceasefire negotiators head to Egypt

I want to exterminate ALL Arabs 'n meet Messiah

(CBC News: The National) CBC/Radio-Canada is a Canadian public broadcast service.) Oct. 5, 2025: Israel's IDF planes and tanks are continuing their genocide as they pound areas across the Gaza Strip as Egypt prepares to host delegates from HAMAS, Israel, the United States, and Qatar for talks over implementing this latest effort to halt the conflict [which Israel does not want to stop].

(Katie Halper) Roger Waters rips Trump and Bibi's fake peace plan

Israeli and Palestinian communities in Canada are cautiously optimistic about the prospects of a ceasefire deal.

The National is the flagship of CBC News, showcasing award-winning journalism from across Canada and around the world. Led by Chief Correspondent Adrienne Arsenault, our team of trusted reporters helps you make sense of the world, wherever you are.

• CBC News - The National, Oct. 5, 2025; Roger 'Pink Floyd' Water, The Katie Halper Show, Oct. 5, 2025; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly