New Mandala

Taka Furuichi of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, has compiled this animation of the path of the cyclone in Burma.

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A few weeks ago, as part of my songkran sortie in northern Thailand, I visited one of the more remote villages in Chiang Mai province to look at a local agricultural project. While I was there I heard that a new temple had been established nearby by some monks keen to spread the work about [...]

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There are reliable reports circulating via email that the major International Congress on Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences to be held in July in Kunming has been postponed. At present the website for the conference does not have any mention of this. As one colleage commented, perhaps the conference - in which ethnic minority issues would, no doubt, feature [...]

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