Cardiff University Main Building Centenary

"Main Building, one of the University’s most impressive pieces of architecture, celebrates its centenary on 14th October 2009. The magnificent grade 2 listed building remains a thriving focal point of the University and is a major architectural jewel in Cardiff’s city centre."

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/mainbuilding100/

A Dzogchen-shaped hole inthe culture

"Because God never existed, the hole in Western culture is not God-shaped. Nietzsche stared into that hole and saw emptiness; but where there is emptiness, there is also form. Dzogchen is the non-duality of form and emptiness. There is a Dzogchen-shaped hole in the heart of our culture. Perhaps now we can put the puzzle piece in place."

http://approachingaro.org/a-dzogchen-shaped-hole-in-the-culture

"Treasures of the Sand" The Legacy of Danzan Ravjaa

"While all of us affect our worlds to one degree or another, in any given generation rise figures who ultimately tower above the rest, and whose force of charisma and visionary activity inalterably shift the entire flow of their culture. Their legacy permeates the imaginations of their people long after they have physically passed from this world, to the point where their memory shades into myth. Though little known in the West, in early 19th c. Mongolia one light blazed brightest of all – Danzan Ravjaa. Poet, dramatist, painter, songsmith, healer, museum curator, educator, architect, scholar, raconteur and Tantric Buddhist master, this renaissance lama continues to inspire Mongols everywhere, but especially the people of the Gobi Desert."

http://www.tibetan-museum-society.org/java/arts-culture-Danzan-Ravjaa.jsp#

See also

http://www.danzanravjaa.org/lordofthegobipart1.php

http://www.gobi-treasure.com/