![]() ![]() Nepalese authorities issued about 470 permits to climb Everest this season. ![]() Hundreds of climbers and their local guides are currently on Everest and a rush for the summit is expected in the next few weeks. Both Kami Rita and Pasang Dawa are still on the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) mountain with their climbing groups and there is a chance they could reach the summit again before the spring climbing season finishes at the end of this month. ![]() Another Sherpa guide, Pasang Dawa, has scaled it 26 times. ![]() Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita climbed the mountain this week for a record 27th time. Only Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the peak more times than Cool. “I am just happy we had a great climb and that we are back.” Mountains are bigger than records,” Cool said at Kathmandu airport after getting off the helicopter that brought him back from Everest. “I really don’t think records belong on the mountains. Kenton Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A British mountain guide returned to Nepal’s capital on Friday after scaling Mount Everest for a 17th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The main arguments of the book are the following: Buddhism is not the only religion that houses rich philosophical and scientific traditions science cannot confirm Buddhist doctrines such as the absence of the self, enlightenment, or the effectiveness of meditation by looking at the brain, but these must be understood in their own conceptual framework and dialogues between Buddhists and scientists serve more to embellish neuroscience and justify Buddhism than to challenge and stimulate each other. In addition, he wants to encourage a cosmopolitanism that apart from drinking from Buddhist wisdom is also nourished by other Indian and Far Eastern philosophies. For him, Buddhist modernism is a building riddled with philosophical cracks, it is not sound. ![]() ![]() To sum it up: Thompson does not feel that he can be a Buddhist in the traditional sense, but neither is he convinced by the most widespread alternative today, one that cuts across traditions: Buddhist modernism. In his latest book, the philosopher Evan Thompson tells us why he is not a Buddhist (‘Why I Am Not A Buddhist’). It is reprinted in a translated form here with the kind permission of Bernat. This article first appeared in Spanish on Bernat Font’s website, at. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katy Evans lives with her husband and their two children plus three lazy dogs in south Texas. ![]() What happens when the man they call Saint, makes you want to sin? Bit by bit, I start to wonder if I'm the one discovering him.or if he's uncovering me. And that's where I come in.Īssigned to investigate Saint and reveal his elusive personality, I'm determined to make him the story that will change my career.īut I never imagined he would change my life. Since he hit the scene, his secrets have been his and his alone to keep. ![]() His entire life he's been surrounded by the press as they dig for tidbits to see if his fairytale life is for real or all mirrors and social media lies. 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They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us. ![]() The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books… People were no cleverer then than they are now they made as many mistakes as we. ![]() Every age makes mistakes, but they do not all make the same mistakes.It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages, and all its hidden implications (often unsuspected by the author himself) have to be brought to light… If you join at eleven o’clock a conversation which began at eight you will often not see the real bearing of what is said (4). (If you’re interested in reading On The Incarnation, and I hope you are, there is a full text of the English translation HERE, complete with Lewis’ fabulous introduction.)Ī new book is still on trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. Lewis in which he lays out a few reasons why old books should not be neglected on account of their old age. In the “Popular Patristics Series” edition that I have, there is an introduction by C.S. I’ve been reading excerpts from Athanasius’ On The Incarnation for my Church History class this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. ![]() When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. When I almost died it was just after midday. I come from a country that was created at midnight. Published on OctoAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About I am Malala I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban ![]() |