Rusty Ring

Though it's generally unknown to Western Buddhists, Russia is one of the formative homelands of our religion. Not only has Buddhis...

Today is День защитника Отечества (Defender of the Fatherland Day) in Russia. The date always leads me to a bit of a "on the one han...

(I've been making kvass [квас] more or less weekly for the past five months. This photo, from my first batch, is квас из черного хл...

One day a man found a battered lamp by the roadside. As he polished away the grime, a genii came streaming out of the burner in a pillar...

(Photo by Thomas Gimlin. Offered in honour of Mothers' Day. Because every so often, when you least expect it, an ikon happens.)

You can't beat the stick for longevity. (Actually, you can't beat a stick at all. Think about it; it's like biting your teeth,...