🙏 INVITATION: CELEBRATE PEACE AND MINDFULNESS AT LANKARAMA BUDDHIST TEMPLE: The Los Angeles Sri Lankan Theravada monks of Lankarama are honored to invite everyone to join in a profound Vesak celebration, marking the birth, great enlightenment, and final passing of the BuddhaSiddhattha Gotama (Shakyamuni).
This sacred event is an opportunity for community, introspection, and spiritual growth.
🗓️ Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
🕔 Time: Starts at 5:00 pm (PT)
Who? Everyone is welcome!
All participants are encouraged to observe the Eight Precepts and join us for a meditation retreat throughout the Vesak program. It is a wonderful chance to deepen practice and find inner tranquility.
La Puente is a suburb in the SGV of LA County
How to join: 📍 ON SITE (in-person): Experience the celebration firsthand at Lankarama Buddhist Temple, 398 Giano Ave., La Puente, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
💻 ONLINE (virtual): If unable to attend in person, join live on: Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok.
Follow and subscribe to @BhanteDevananda for livestreams and updates. For more information or inquiries: 📞 Phone: (626) 913-0775 📧 Email: LankaramaUSA@gmail.com. May all beings be well and happy!
NEW EPSTEIN FILES: Allegations against sex criminal Trump
(Courtside with Kristy Greenberg) March 10, 2026: Newly released Epstein Files reveal "troubling" details about a cover up and how the FBI handled interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of sexually molesting her when she was a minor in the 1980s.
Would MAGA vote for a rich child molester?
The FBI later said the witness “refused to cooperate.” But written documents tell a very different story. According to the FBI reports, the woman ("Doe") met with FBI agents three times with her lawyer to present her claims about being molested as a child, sexual assaults, and threats made by her adult abusers.
None of those interviews appear to have been recorded. But during a fourth interview, her lawyer was absent—and agents suddenly wanted to audio record the conversation while asking about Epstein’s associates, specifically one Donald Trump. Why did the FBI suddenly change the interview protocol?
Does Trump appear in blackmail child molestation porn videos hidden by the FBI and DOJ?
Why didn't Epstein prosecutors or case agents ever interview this witness? Were Doe's allegations ever seriously investigated? Why is the DOJ still hiding documents relating to this witness?
CHAPTERS
Donald, torture, murder, burial by Epstein?
00:00 - The false narrative that Doe refused to cooperate
02:22 - 1: Why did FBI agents change the interview protocol?
06:48 - 2: Did the FBI investigate Doe's claims and assess her credibility?
08:26 - 3: Did any Epstein prosecutors interview Doe?
10:06 - 4: Did any Epstein case agents interview Doe?
11:04 - 5: Why is DOJ still hiding documents relating to Doe?
But most outrageous is the false narrative that Doe refused to cooperate. The reality: FBI gave her no reason to. She asked: "What's the point if nothing could be done?" Shockingly, the FBI agents didn't dispute that nothing could be done.
When victims believe nothing will happen if they come forward, the justice system isn’t just failing them — it’s failing all of us.
As a former SDNY Criminal Division Chief and sex crimes prosecutor, I show you these important revelations in the new FBI reports, the questions that remain unanswered, and why this case raises serious concerns about how the justice system handles sexual assault allegations involving powerful people. #epsteinfiles #trump #politics #legalnews #crime #fbi #doj
Isn't it strange that there are no "Ronald McDonald FARMS" but there are McDonald's Children's HOSPITALS, where corpses (human remains) can be obtained to grind into human flesh burgers? Why stop at cows and pigs, cannibal? Go vegan.
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Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of some of the Moai stone monoliths found on Rapa Nui, better known to Westerners as "Easter Island." Here’s the truth [so far].
Here’s what readers will learn when reading this story:
Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of some of the Moai (giant stone statues) stone monoliths found on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
The scientists analyzed soil in the vicinity of two of the Moai statues and found traces of banana, taro, and sweet potato, according to research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
These traces indicate the statues could have been used to celebrate the crop fertility of soils in the region.
The famed stone monoliths that tower over the island of Rapa Nui—colloquially known as Easter Island—have puzzled scientists for centuries.
But archeologists and soil scientists studying the ancient Moai now believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of the famous statues.
Clues in nearby soils suggest the statues may have been placed there to celebrate the fertility of crops in the area.
Remote island research is the best kind of work
For more than three decades, Jo Ann Van Tilburg of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) has studied the origins of the Moai along with Rapanui artist Cristián Arévalo Pakarati and other members of the local community.
They recruited soil scientist Sarah Sherwood, of the University of the South in Tennessee, to analyze the soil the base of two statues found peculiarly perched upright in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern part of the island, where most of the more than 1,000 Moai statues originated.
(The scientists suspect that work in the quarry began around A.D. 1455). The team analyzed soils at the foot of two of the structures, which archeologists believe were erected by or before A.D. 1510 to A.D. 1645, and found chemical evidence of common food crops.
The soils revealed traces of foods like taro, banana, and sweet potato, according to research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. More
You stand with Israel and worldwide Zionism, right Your Holiness CIA Tenzin Dolly Lama?
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(ETimes) Feb. 8, 2026: The Epstein Files have ignited fresh global controversy after the Dalai Lama’s name appeared 169 times in [just the latest batch or tranche of] newly released U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) documents. Emails linked to Jeffrey Epstein reference potential meetings and events, prompting intense scrutiny online. The Dalai Lama’s office (dalailama.com) has issued a firm denial, saying he never met or authorized contact with Epstein [though the files seem to suggest a visit to Pedophile Island was at least planned]. As questions swirl, this breakdown explains what the files show, and what they do not.
We can't believe they would say this of a man, HH the 14th Dalai Lama (Mr. Tenzin Gyatso), who is:
known to be a confirmed CIA asset (Los Angeles Times) in league with and on the payroll of The Company, accepting money as well as arms and military training received by his brother in the state of Colorado in the U.S.'s covert fight against communist China, which invaded, occupied, and destroyed a small but influential Buddhist country and former Himalayan empire based in Lhasa,
lauded by Hollywood with a Grammy for his album,
a good personal friend of President George W. Bush,
Did Dalai Lama just ruin Tibetan Buddhism, or did he make Tantra more attractive to Western pedophiles?
Our beloved Jewish Prof. Norm Finkelstein
the son of the former FBI Director George H. W. Bush (who is also found in the Epstein Files),
who went on to become U.S. president and almost head of a Republican dynasty of at least three presidents (George H. W., George W., Republican candidate Florida Gov. Jeb Bush),
who was racked by a sex scandal of his own for (culturally specific) lewd conduct with a child on camera, heard telling the boy to "suck my tongue,"
[Wait, it's not "gay" to tell underage boys to French kiss you for fun, is it? Your Holiness, is it? We understand that it's cool and no big deal in Tibet, at least among pleasure-seeking monks of Potala Palace, but you weren't in Tibet and the little boy wasn't Tibetan. Do Robert Thurman and Richard Gere know you do this kind of stuff, and have they always known as they have acted as your big time Western "handlers" of a sort?]
[who is part of a secretive Vatican-like sect of Tantric Vajrayana Buddhists, one of which is allegedly seen on camera pederastically fondling the penis of a young boy, presumably the tulku or "unmistaken child" destined to become a lama and rinpoche (see Unmistaken Child) during his novice ordination preparation, suggesting that homosexual fondling and contact among Tibetan clergy was not any more of a foreign concept than in Roman Catholic clergy circles].
and who used to be the "pope-king" of Tibet, that is its simultaneous temporal and spiritual leader, at least of one of its three main sects, the Yellow Hat Gelug sect,
*The New Kadampa Trust has been criticized for its rejection of other Buddhist groups, the exclusivity of its teachings, its worship of Dorje Shugden, and its association with an anti-Dalai Lama protest movement, the International Shugden Community, which is supported by China [12, 13, 14]. More
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.
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.
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
(PraveenMohan) NOT BUILT FOR (OR BY) HUMANS: Impossible Buddhist-Hindu temple found in Cambodia [seems to have been constructed by and for nagas, "reptilian humanoids," "lizard people," extraterrestrial dragons, serpents, snakes hybridized with humans. It is called Neak Peanor "Entwined Nagas."
The Herbal Island (Garden) Hospital
We came from Draco and run this planet from below. Don't believe it? Just ask David Icke.
Neak Pean (or Neak Poan) [2] (Khmer ប្រាសាទនាគព័ន្ធ, "the Entwined Serpents") at Angkor, Cambodia, is an artificial island (ancient hospital and plant pharmacy) and reservoir.
It is a Mahayana Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray, which was associated with Preah Khan Temple, said to have been built during the reign of King Jayavarman VII [3]: 389. It is the "Mebon" of the Preah Khan baray (the "Jayatataka" of the inscription) [4].
Caduceus: two entwined (winged) serpents are the Western symbol of "medicine"
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The Garden had a medicinal pond for plants?
Some historians believe that Neak Pean represents Anavatapta [5]: 174 , a mythical lake in the Himalayas whose waters are thought to cure all illnesses [6]: 124–125 [7].
The name is derived from the sculptures of snakes (nāgas,reptilians, dragons, serpents) running around the base of the temple structure, neak being the Khmer translation of the Sanskrit word naga.
"They are Nanda and Upa-Nanda, two nagas traditionally associated with Lake Anavatapta" [8]. More
Why would a watery snake live in garden?
Takshaka (Sanskrit तक्षक, Takṣaka, Taxaka) is a "dragon king" (naga-raja) in Hinduism and Buddhism. He is mentioned in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata as well as in the Bhagavata Purana. He is described to be a "King of the Nagas."
Takshaka(s) are also known in Chinese and Japanese mythology as being one of the "Eight Great Dragon Kings" (八大龍王 Hachi-dai Ryuu-ou) [1]. They are the only snakes [dragons] that can fly, and they are also mentioned as the most venomous snakes, among Nanda (Nagaraja), Upa-Nanda, Sagara (Shakara), Vasuki, Balavan, Anavatapta, and Utpala. More
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