Sunday, December 31, 2017

Happy New Year--Chinese pilgrim Fa Hsien's account of visiting Jetavana Monastery, now in present day India

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fa-hien/f15l/chapter20.html
Free images from Wikipedia. Foundations of 2 kuti or huts (foundations), one with rose petals said to have been occupied by Gautama Buddha. Banyan tree planted during Buddha's life time, and sculptures of the donation, when merchants covered the ground with gold coins. 12-31-2017

Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response....