Ratna

@hekwoys my pet theory is that ~80% of everything "ancient" is at most 200 years old

>“Check out my culture’s unique & ancient folk clothing!” >look inside >obviously 19th century

@kiaglik11 @MeathGuerilla that right there is where they're keeping my soul. but they won't let me in

@MeathGuerilla Some people do iykyk

Remembering an argument in a Victoria 2 discord between an Indian guy and a German and the Indian dude says to the German "nobody goes to Germany to discover their soul"

WAKE UP EVERYONE!! @Translate84000 HAS JUST PUBLISHED ITS 8000 LINE PRAJNAPARAMITA TRANSLATION!!!!!! reader.84000.co/b43ac3f8-f616-…

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Herman Melville

@Superlineal With no breaks, as per Béla Tarr's intent

Te mentí, no habrá coito; veremos Sátántangó, la adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de László Krasznahorkai, dirigida en 1994 por Béla Tarr, de 432 minutos, en blanco y negro, descargada en una plataforma poco fiable, audio en húngaro y subtitulada al inglés.

@Menatetronone_4 and they're able to increase not just the skin, but core temperature up to 38.3°C/ 100.9°F

@Menatetronone_4 they're wearing cotton – the practioners are called Repa རས་པ་ "cotton-wearers"

Wool releases heat when it gets wet

@john1576 @HistoryTibetan if Tibetans had reason for gratitude, China wouldn't need to send armies of bots with VPNs like you

@HistoryTibetan For goodness sake. You people are incredible. You owe China everything. China gave Tibet a decent standard of living. Decent Health services. China lifted Tibet from the hell hole of warped religion. If you want to live in a religious mad house, go and live in America.

In the vast, snow-dusted grasslands of Amdo Genja, a Tibetan brother speaks with raw sarcasm: "My friend serves as a Chinese official... yet he can't live happily, can't freely pray to his Root Guru, can't experience true religious freedom even in the city." The land is free. The spirit longs to be. When will the soul of Tibet breathe without chains? #Tibet #Amdo #ReligiousFreedom

If you think about it, it makes total sense that a book about a 14th century yogi-engineer should be translated into Middle English

Who else remembers the time when there were no Chinese peptides and we had to make do with these

@tsoding somewhere, a CIA guy stares into his scotch, haunted. "Manual IPs, Sarah. A direct patch cable. No cloud. No uplink. Just cold, hard copper." "The data?" "Forget it. They’re Tsoding’s files now. We’re blind." "Come to bed." "What's the point, Sarah. Whats the point of any of it."

I just employed a dark millennial magic of directly connecting two laptops with a patch cable, assigning IPs to them manually and transferring files between them. CIA agents are mad. They will never get my files.

(I'm definitely below stage 2 and in fact I'm not entirely sure about even being on stage 1)

"Second, the time of being able to sustain it for a single day of equal day and night. Third, the time of becoming unimpededly penetrating without distinction of day or night."

Some Tibetan meditation instructions have a distinctly Tibetan feel indeed: "Furthermore, regarding the time of meditative equipoise, there are three stages: First, the time of being able to sustain it for the duration it takes to butcher a single sheep."

@cookiecarver the true dao is the retranslated dao

must feel sooo good for the dao when the dao de jing gets translated again and again

@Phauxstus @cremieuxrecueil estimates range from2.04 to 2.27 popes per sq km.

@cremieuxrecueil How much is that in metric? IE in meters?

the vatican city has 6 popes per square mile

@TheStalwart monitoring the situation 24/7. that's the dream.

This is really cool. Imagine being able to lucid dream every night, and then in your controlled dreams, you browse twitter, read the news etc, so every morning when you wake up, you're totally informed and caught up.

All Ordination in Japan was being done in the Vinaya Lineages Sthaviravāda/Theravada tradition And the study of Theravada Abhidharma was considered basic for entry study for any monk. Over time as Monks like Xunzuang, Yijing, Faxian went to India and studied more and brought

Theravada also spreaded in East Asian nations during the early spread of Buddhism as there was no doctrinal rigid boundary in early stage and Theravada Abhidharma was extensively studied in China, Korea, Japan as well Infact so much so that at one very brief moment in history

@Kairo_Anatomika is this... lice cream?

Okay so.... humans are the only known host for head lice. The species of lice found in human hair are not found on any other creatures..... they don't survive on other creatures. Archaeologists have found head lice on Peruvian mummies..... so this implies that they actually came from the americas. So then, does that mean before Europeans began colonizing North and South america, there was no head lice in europe? So medieval peasants, ancient greeks, ancient egyptians didn't have head lice? Did head lice evolve in the americas, or that they cross the bearing land the bridge into North America with their human hosts?