Southernmost republic of Russia | Makhachkala, abandoned villages, sand dune, mountains, Khabib's
(Eli from Russia) Nov. 26, 2021: Dagestan is named a hidden gem of the Caucasus in Russia, formerly the USSR. It is also the most multi-national republic in the country. Let's discover its beautiful mountain villages and canyons and get to know the local traditions.
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0:00 Welcome to Dagestan!
1:36 Local cuisine and payment for breaking the dishes
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What created the problem in Burma (the name of which was changed to Myanmar by military dictators like General Than Shwe as the Western media just bought in)?
The British Empire was ruthless in dividing and conquering, destroying everything in its wake, leaving behind racism and Orwellian dystopian order that are operating even today as the Theravada nation enters 2026.
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, and Burmese Days, and the essay Shooting an Elephant, was born here under the British Raj (when it was part of India before the British partitioned it all over the place, after sacking the richest country in the world through the East India Company). He saw what was going on here and in England and wrote that into his novels.
The overthrow of Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi's father U Aung Ko was fictionalized and shown in the 1995 American movie Beyond Rangoon (with Patricia Arquette)
. Isolated group in Colombia found with no modern human relatives
There were many kinds of humans.
Deep in Colombia’s highlands, scientists have uncovered a mysterious ancient population unlike any group known today. Around 6,000 years ago, this population lived near the Bogotá Altiplano, a high plateau that served as a critical corridor for early migration between North and South America.
This discovery is remarkable because their genetic makeup does not match any known modern human populations. [Like the Basque in Spain?]
For decades, researchers believed the peopling of South America followed two main genetic lineages, but this newly identified group represents an entirely unknown branch of humanity.
Their DNA reveals a lineage that vanished without leaving any genetic descendants in present-day populations.
This finding challenges long-held assumptions about human migration and diversity in the Americas. It opens a new window into the complex history of human settlement on the continent, inviting us to rethink the story of our ancient ancestors and their paths. Isolated group in Colombia found with no modern human relatives (TimelessTalesHQ.com)
(HECHO Online) Some experiences and places can be transformative and change our perspective. Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, is a sacred land in southeastern Arizona.
It is the kind of place that stays with one way after a visit, just like the people of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, who have lived in and cared for this beautiful high desert since time immemorial.
That was the experience that members of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and HECHO teams had during a recent visit to Oak Flat, 60 miles east of Phoenix.
Articulate it to a judge; make them understand
They saw firsthand the extraordinary beauty of this area now at risk and listened to the eye-opening testimonies of members of the Apache Stronghold.
Listen to Naelyn Pike, member of the Apache Stronghold.
#SaveOakFlat
HUNZA RIVER VALLEY, Pakistan - The mystery of the longevity of the formerly Buddhist and Bon Hunza (prior to Islamic invasion and forced conversion, leaving them as Shia Muslims). The Hunza are the people who do not age and live to be 120-140 years old.
(Unraveling the Scriptures) ✪ Members first on July 4, 2024. Ever imagine living to be 120 years old or reaching 140 while looking like a teenager? Or reaching 80 years old while looking 40 and remaining healthy? This video talks about the mystery of the Hunza people in Indo-Pakistan (formerly India before the Partition of 1947).
Tibet was a massive empire, with Lhasa as its capital, and Gilgit (Hunza) circle at left.
"Bon" refers to the indigenous shamanic traditions of these mountains, as practiced throughout the Tibetan Empire prior to Buddhism, at which time it melded with the esoteric teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism throughout the Himalayas.
American longevity expert Dr. Joel Wallach (criticialhealthnews.com) insists the biblical phrase "land of milk and honey" does not refer to dairy and bee products but rather the frothy mineral rich waters coming down from glacial mountain streams and fruit nectar from trees growing on rugged terrain.
What are the secrets, to live in peace and not kill?
The Buddhist mountain people of Hunza take cold plunges, breathe fresh air, exercise daily, play sports until 100, eat mineral-rich food from the hills and valley, eat fresh low caloric foods, and live happily in close community. This is the Hunza River below the Himalayas and Karakoram ranges (close to the tallest mountain in the world, which is likely K2 rather than Everest), where beauty is the norm, much like the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha Gautama of neighboring Bamiyan, Afghanistan, called Kapilavastu in Gandhara in ancient times).
Two main secrets of Hunza longevity (Prama) In sum, there are the two main secrets to the Hunza longevity lifestyle. The first is a stress-reducing, cheerful, optimistic, and celebratory lifestyle. The Hunza are known for their many family gatherings and festivals. The second is a nutrient dense diet free of sugar and processed foods, very low animal fat intake, and a nutritional regime high in nutrient rich plants—as well as probiotics from kefir and fermented foods.
Buddhism and, to a lesser extent Bön, was the primary religion in the area. The region holds several surviving Buddhist archeological sites, such as the Sacred Rock of Hunza.
Hunza Valley was central to the network of trading routes connecting Buddhist Central Asia to the subcontinent (India).
It also provided protection to Buddhist missionaries and wandering ascetic monks visiting the subcontinent, and the region played a significant role in the transmission of Buddhism throughout Asia [3] (along the Silk Road from the birthplace of the Buddha in Afghanistan and the birth of Buddhism in Bihar, proto-India).
Before conquest by Islam, the majority of the region practiced Buddhism. Since then, most of the population was converted to Islam.
The region has many works of graffiti in the ancient Brahmi script written on rocks (petroglyphs), produced by Buddhist monastics as a form of worship and culture [4].
With most locals being converted to Islam, those inscriptions had been mainly left ignored, destroyed, or forgotten, but they are now being restored [5].
Unraveling the Scriptures, July 5, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
David A. Taylor, Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2007; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tough Love Maverick Buddhist monk Khru Ba gives a novice Buddhist monk Thai kickboxing lessons in Northern Thailand, from Buddha's Lost Children.
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Monk on a Mission
Saving the Orphans of Northern Thailand (full doc)
Buddha's Lost Children: full documentary
(Dhamma Source) June 26, 2023: Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Theravada Buddhist monk named Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kosittowho -- armed only with his Buddhist faith and skills and master Thai kickboxer skills -- wages an inspirational battle to help save orphaned children, fight drug (meth) abuse, and preserve a vanishing way of life. Director: Mark Verkerk. Learn more and support here: buddhaslostchildren.com
Buddha’s Lost Children is a Dutch film about Theravada Buddhist Thailand, directed by Mark Verkerk, EMS Films, 2006.
As the lights go down, the sound of a stream is heard. The first images show a bare-chested man cross-legged on a tall stone spur in the forest, limbering up his arms and neck in what looks like a cross between meditation and martial arts.
His face is calm, but his body wears a wild constellation of tattoos: calligraphy wriggles down his arms, and a winged horse flies across his chest.
The man is a Thai Theravada Buddhist monk. In the next moment, he’s egging on two boys who are kick boxing. “That’s it!” he cries.
“Kick into his neck.”
The documentary Buddha’s Lost Children tells the story of the maverick Buddhist monk and former pro kickboxer Khru Ba and his mission to save forgotten souls at the edge of Thai society — drug-infested communities in the mountainous region of northern Thailand along the Burmese border, near Laos, known as [the drug dealing haven] the Golden Triangle.
“Look at the things they do,” Khru Ba says of the addicted. “Who’ll forgive them? The law of the land doesn’t forgive them, nor does the law of karma....
Only a crazy fool of a monk like me is willing to forgive them.”
The hill-tribe ethnic groups of that region — including the Akha, Karen, Yao, and Lisu — have for much of their history been at the mercy of larger forces: drug barons, corrupt Thai officials, disease, and poverty.
They have always lived at the margins: They dress differently from mainstream Thais, speak in different tongues, and hold animist (rather than Buddhist) beliefs. They don’t fit in.
At Khru Ba’s Golden Horse Monastery, he takes their orphaned and abandoned children under his wing and gives them lessons in, among other things, Buddhist Dharma and Thai kickboxing.
“Thai boxing means having a free heart and body; it means not being enslaved to desire or to drugs,” he tells his novices. “Do you understand?”
The boys shout, “Yes!” The young Buddhist novices ride into a village on horseback, saffron robes flapping in their wake, like a gang in a spaghetti Western.
The ritual of receiving alms food from villagers looks almost like a holdup. Khru Ba shouts out his version of karma: Be good, good things come to you, but “if you’re not good, the [animist] spirits will break your neck.”
Mark Verkerk, the Dutch filmmaker who spent three years making the film, says it is about more than an itinerant monk.
“It was important that the film communicate something universal,” Verkerk said by email, “something people could relate to from other cultures — and there’s nothing more universal than raising kids.”
Khru Ba left his own wife and two children after a close friend’s death and a vivid dream that commanded him to open a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of the far north, where one in five youths who turn up for national service are addicted to cheap Western methamphetamines.
Like a spiritual 007, Khru Ba has special permission from the Supreme Patriarch in Bangkok to use whatever methods he deems necessary to address the problems at the kingdom’s edge.
“He’s the only monk to have found a way to operate in this border region,” says Verkerk.
The film, with cinematography that combines sweeping landscapes and intimate views of the region’s culture, has taken honors at various festivals in Europe and North America, and in August (2007) it had its American theatrical pre-release in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is now available on DVD.
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians host their annual Thunder & Lighting Pow Wow from Sept. 22-24, 2023, in Cabazon, California, on the grounds of the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa.
PowWows.comwill stream this pow wow live! Or watch it in person at a luxurious resort. It is open to the public.
All dancers, drummers, and singers are welcome to participate. Register now.
It's on the way to Joshua Tree, past Banning. Morongo’s pow wow is located just off the 10 Freeway in Cabazon, approximately 20 minutes west of Palm Springs. Going eastbound from Los Angeles County, take the 10 Fwy. Exit on Morongo Trail. Turn left (north). Turn right (east) on Seminole Drive. Then follow the signs to the pow wow.
Peon is a guessing game that used to be played during the annual mourning ceremonies. Today, peon can be played at any type of Indian gathering or fiesta. Four member opposing teams of either males or females play. Similar to “hand games,” each player has two peon bones (one black, one white) made from coyote or deer leg bones. A band of rawhide is strapped to the middle of the stick, which is slipped over the player’s wrist. More
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