Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Subashi

Subashi is a lost city located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road, near Kucha, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China.

Subashi Temple witnessed the development and the height of splendor of Buddhism in this land. The temple was built in the first century and reached its peak during the sixth to the eighth centuries in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907), on passing by on his way to India to obtain Buddhist sutra, the hierarch Xuanzang was so impressed by the splendor of the temple and the popularity of Buddhism in this area that he stayed for more than 2 months. During later years, the temple had over 10 thousand monks and many hierarchs came from the interior of China to promote and develop Buddhism. Unfortunately, wars of the ninth century destroyed the temple, and it never recovered. It was finally abandoned in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries when Islam was introduced to Xinjiang and began to prevail.

Today only the ruins of this temple remain. The pagodas, murals, walls and archaeological discoveries bear witness to the years of change, the stories of Buddhism and the development of civilization in this vast land.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Under A Red Moon

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says he believes China will return to the moon with human explorers before the U.S. accomplishes that goal with its Constellation Program, as the economic competition fueled by spaceflight activities intensifies.




But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold.

I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute.

However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.



Remember when presidential speeches would energize and inspire us?

Me neither.

The last 8 I saw were THE SAME bullshit that is keeping this country lagging behind any reach for our future for our kin and countrymen.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

You Use To Walk Uphill And In The Snow To School?

Big deal.




Death defying school run

A bridge is to be built in a Chinese village where children are forced to cross
a raging torrent on a steel cable to get to school.


Wednesday, September 05, 2007

More Chinese Toy Recall!

Do not eat.


Panda Bear Traps







Do not see.




Do not attempt a Chinese Downhill.





Monday, August 20, 2007

Another Chinese Recall


If you have a China Airlines Boeing 737-800, please return it as it you may experience some slight turbulence and then explode.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Chinese Toy Recall

Check your toy chest. Look under the bed. Scan the yard. If you have any of the following Chinese toys, dispose of them properly. They could be dangerous for young children.








Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Hello China!

I see a lot of people checking in from China.

So I'd just like to say hello.

Hello China!



I love you.




Please remember that when you come and visit us in the near future.