Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan (2022) is a recently released documentary film about Mongolia produced by Robert H. Lieberman and Deborah C. Hoard (Journeyman Pictures).
What may be of particular interest to readers of my blog is that one of the two main narrators is Mongolia’s highly-regarded master poet-scholar and calligrapher Gonbojav Mend-Ooyo. The other is American author Jack Weatherford. Over the years, I have had the privilege of many insightful conversations with Master G. Mend-Ooyo as we travelled the long distances in vehicular convoy to and from Ulaanbator to the more remote regions of Mongolia for conferences and other cultural events.
G. Mend-Ooyo brings genuine depth and Mongolian authenticity to projects with which he is involved. Much of his beautiful poetry has been translated into the English language by his longtime personal translator (and musician) Simon Wickham-Smith.
The documentary film Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan (2022) is available to stream on Apple TV.
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The musical, personal and poetic interconnection
In 2017 I composed the soundscape Fluxus in F for Adriana based on one of Ts. Tsolmon’s beautiful poems for a friend with whom I was studying in Switzerland, and who was at that time working on her PhD. Fluxus in F was inspired by a poem by another of Mongolia’s wonderful poets Ts. Tsolmon.
In 2019 Adriana T. Piza completed an exemplary piece of Buddhist analytical scholarship through the Department of Philosophy, University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. If you are interested in such topics, her thesis The Buddhist Concept of Selflessness According to Je Tsongkhapa is available here in the public domain. Congratulations Adriana, such a complex piece of research scholarship — well done!
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