Envelope Drawing

Drawing on an envelope from last week. (It says ཡག་པོ་འདུག / It's good)

Envelope Hammer & Nail

Another seminar drawing. Not sure why I was thinking of hammers and nails ...

Francis Wayland

I'm mostly busy applying for jobs these days, but I did a little drawing of Francis Wayland, who has a huge portrait in the philosophy department. I learned that he was the president of Brown University in 1827 ... 

Presentation Drawings

Two small drawings I did during a philosophy talk about Ancient Greek philosophy and virtue. The second one says "the art of living" (I think!).

Boudha Stupa

Here's a drawing I did of a stupa. It's based on the one I lived near in Nepal called Boudha.

It's for sale here, and as a black and white drawing here. All the profits will go to benefit the Nepal Youth Foundation, which provides education and healthcare to Nepali children.

Slow Turtle is Happy!

Here's a turtle. The verse says:

If your mind is unhappy,
Go slowly.

སེམས་སྐྱིད་པོ་མེད་ན།།
ག་ལེ་ག་ལེ་འགྲོ།

(It is for sale to benefit Tibetan charity here.)

Hurricane Sandy

ཆར་གྱིས་མཁར་ལ་གནོད་ན་ཡང་།།

འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་རྣམས་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ།།

     - ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ

Even if rain damages a mansion,

It brings joy to worldly beings.

- Sakya Pandita

Here comes hurricane Sandy.

Ideas

བསམ་བློ་ཡག་པོ་གཏོང་།།

བསམ་བློ་མ་བརྗེད་དང་།།

Think a good thought

Don't forget the thought

A drawing / verse I did recently. It's on paper I brought back from Nepal. 

Sometimes they happen

Had a headache today and did this drawing. Other than the headache, everything is good. Working on the dissertation blah blah blah.

Eight Scenes of Worry

I've put up a new comic that I drew this past year in Kathmandu, Nepal. It's called Eight Scenes of Worry. I've been trying to kick the habit of worrying too much and it was cathartic to draw what it feels like to be worried. I think I'm starting to improve ...

It's drawn on handmade paper and was drawn mostly by candlelight.

Goodbye KTM

I leave Kathmandu tomorrow (for Bangkok, then Providence). When I got here I hated it but now I think I will miss it. That's always how it goes, right? 

My Tibetan

Anybody who has heard me speak Tibetan knows that I have a habit of saying 're wa' (རེད་བ་) a lot; it means something like "right?" or "isn't it?" (or maybe like desune in Japanese).

I'm saying "Lhasa is a nice place, right? Tibet has a lot of yaks, right? It's good, right? Right? Right? Right?" and the bottom text says "My way of speaking, right?"

The difference between Kathmandu and Baltimore ...

I've been watching a lot of The Wire on my laptop. If you don't know, it's a really great show about police and drug dealing set in Baltimore. Anyway, it must be getting into my brain because I saw someone toss out a bag of trash from their window and immediately assumed it was drugs ...

Just a State of Mind ...

I feel pretty bad that I've been in Nepal for so long and haven't learned very much Nepali at all. So I decided to do a comic in Nepali. The sentence is from a lesson in a textbook I have. He says "Yesterday I didn't go out. I stayed home." (हिजॊ म कतै गइनँ।  घरै बसॆँ। I think ... I'm not very good at typing in Devanagari).

Yesterday the rains finally arrived and I stayed inside nearly all day. There is something really nice about staying in when it is raining, but I want to get better about going out even when it is raining (everything's the same). Since my time in Nepal is starting to wind down, I also want to get out of Boudha a little more and see things that aren't just Tibetan (though I want to see a few more of those things too!). I'm saving some things for when Alex comes here in July (!), but getting out of Boudha and into the rain before then would probably do me some good ...

"I Don't Know"

Just playing around with the red pen I found. He says "I don't know" (ཤེས་གི་མེད). I just started some calligraphy lessons, so hopefully my Tibetan writing will start looking a lot better ...

Boudha Stupa

I did a little drawing (from memory!) with brush and ink of the main stupa near my house, Boudhanath.

red ma red

Found a red pen, so I drew this monk. He says "yes or no?" (རེད་མ་རེད།).

Ups and Downs

Drew this one when the power was out last week, but the newspaper said load shedding will decrease soon. However, it looks like there will be a pretty bad fuel shortage...

Insomnia + Worry

Doesn't happen too often anymore, but it sometimes happens. 

In case you were worried ...

He's back again to calm you down.