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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Update from Nepal. The needs are changing. Donate accordingly. www.facebook.com/share/p/1EsJ...

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From Tibet to California with love.

Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've commented on this illustrated essay by Michael Woodhead about Crime and Punishment in Tibet, adding some examples of extrajudicial punishments used on Christians in Kham. #Tibet #justice #missionary substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Crime and punishment

Penalties for breaking the law in Tibet ranged from beatings and banishment to being shackled and worse ...

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Like glittering sunbeams The flute notes reach the gods In the birth grotto" Not bad for an economist and politician.

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today I visited a staging area in Dhulikel for water, sanitation, and hygiene supplies that #Nepal #Rotary clubs are sending to the disaster zone where flood victims are homeless. These water filters are going out soon. Multiple clubs are combining forces to share information and transportation.

Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I found this book in a sealed wrapper at a bookstore in Thamel yesterday. I bought it not knowing what’s in it, kind of like I’m a contestant on storage wars. Or maybe the better analogy is Forrest Gump: it’s like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. #IATS2026

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Closure of the #Gyirong border post means #Nepal cannot receive petrol shipments from China. #Gas prices are going up due to interrupted supply. But you wouldn’t guess this by the traffic in Kathmandu.

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyone going to #Nepal during #monsoon, you NEED to know this: Mugwort repels #leeches and it is common at trail side. Rub it on your shoes and walking stick for long lasting protection.

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For some reason people keep buying my book.

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm in Pokhara, #Nepal. Just did a 5-day trek to Poon Hill. Apart from the rain (it's still monsoon), everything was fine. Hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, shops, airports--all operating. Roads are dicey but repairs will start when rains end. Nepal needs tourists!

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Workers labor to repair a road from the onslaught of floodwaters at Birenthati, #Nepal. #monsoon

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Nepal Travelers make their way across a section of road washed out by monsoon floods. This is a few miles east of Birenthati, and it is one of many problems shutting down this highway in the Pokhara region. #monsoonflood

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Landslide took out this piece of the road from Birethanti to Ghandruk, leaving 12 miles disconnected from the highway system. Monsoon rains have made the river high and angry. Nepalese are not strangers to the wrath of Mother Nature. #Nepalflood #Rasuraflood

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Do any of these things during the monastery's meditation session and you'll be whacked with a stick: nod off, snore, lean on the wall, speak, laugh, stagger around, oscillate forward & back, or scratch. You have been warned. #discipline #buddhism

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Monks & others setting up lamps at the center of the sacred Lumbini complex in #Nepal.

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"Strategic ambiguity" is an apt phrase to describe the way pre-1949 China believed that Tibet was its territory, whereas Tibetans believed themselves to be independent. Both sides benefitted from this charade--until modernity demanded a clear answer to the question of whose country it was. #Tibet

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I'm learning from a presentation at #IATS2026 how Kumbum Gonpa in the late 19th century had a corrupt and avaricious abbot. Later, when HHDL13 was staying there, he issued new rules to clean up the place, but his efforts failed.

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Survivors in Nepal swim to retrieve gas cylinders from flash floods

We have Doctors Without Borders, but to address the situation in Nepal, we also need Rescuers Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, and Garbage Trucks Without Borders. www.youtube.com/shorts/xBJZm...

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today at Lumbini, Buddha’s birthplace, monks from Buddhist communities around the world gathered to pray for people missing in the #Nepalflood. #prayer. #Buddhism

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We are but motes of dust on the eyeball of Mother Earth. #NepalFloods

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Getting ready for my star performance at #IATS2026 beginning and a half an hour in the pre-modern history session.

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Flash flooding that wipes out entire villages - that happened in May, 2008 as a result of the Sichuan quake centered at Wenchuan, next to a very unstable mountainous area. There wasn’t much coverage at the time because damage to more accessible towns & cities dominated the news. #Nepalflood

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Enjoying the documentary “Living Sanctuary” about preservation of built heritage in Ladakh. Great work by Tenzin Nyandak! A pity his team isn’t working in Tibet proper. #IATS2026

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Vietnamese monk preparing to spend the next five years meditating in the jungle. #Lumbini #Buddhism #Nepal

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Solve our mini crossword; guess the year in Dateline, our history game; and test yourself with our pint-sized news quiz

I scored 65 out of 100 points on Dateline, The Economist's history game! 🟠 🟠 🟢 🟠 🟠 Can you do better? Edition: August 20th 2026 economist.com/topics/games

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Lumbini Development Trust

I clicked on this link because there's a dog in the story; only after I got there did I realize this is another chapter in a story that was in the news for several months. lumbinidevtrust.gov.np/post/2_6a38f...

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Pam Logan @pamkhamaid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A Black friend once explained to me about “the nod” that Black people give when seeing one another in a White environment. Now in a Nepalese bus, I just gave “the nod” to a White couple as they boarded.

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I’m told Kathmandu residents all have running water and flush toilets, and the effluent goes to India so no worries. 🙁

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Repair of the red building on the right was sponsored by China. The US sponsored repair of the adjoining white building. #Nepalearthquake

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Most of the damage from the 2015 earthquake has been repaired. Amazing what they have done. Here is a wall that hasn't been fixed.

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Great presentation by Robbie Barnett on deciphering Chinese publications to get at what's really going on. It was also fun to hear from Danny Ching speaking about the evolution of animation as a tool for telling Tibetan stories. #IATS2026.

"Religious conflict in southern Nepal" given as the reason the Nepal government directed #IATS2026 be cancelled.

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Just mentioned in opening remarks at #IATS2026: the Prime Minister of Nepal *is also* the president of Kathmandu University, the purported host of the conference. Political considerations here were in direct opposition to academic ideals. What a dilemma for him!

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Zoom: "you now have access to key AI features until you reach their limit—no payment or commitment required!" Me: Read the room, Zoom. People don't want AI features!