JAMES TAM  谭炳昌

这是智利和阿根廷几个著名坟场的摄影特辑 A photo album of famed cemeteries in Chile and Argentina, including Cementerio de la Recoleta

A few days ago, on my way to evening meditation at Dong Shan ( link to Shadows of Cave Mountain), I was captivated by the moon. It was a...

咚 ～沈肅的禪鐘聲與本來的寂靜互相引接，引起了一靜一動的共鳴。和諧的交替，並未驚破黎明。從房間里，我聽不到敲鐘僧人的唱誦，但幾晚前曾經上鐘樓聽唱：「洪鐘初扣 寶偈高吟 上徹天堂 下通地府 。。干戈永息 甲馬休征 陣敗傷亡 俱生淨土。。」 寒山僧鐘唱畢，鼓樓會以「風雨雷電」鼓聲回應

A 16-day mediation camp at Dongshan Temple in China

I don’t know anything about graffiti, but the good ones make me stop to admire, as if in a gallery. Some are amazing not only due to its...

Like most tourists, I prefer historical sites or “exotic” destinations when travelling, wishing to see something “different”. Since I...

Photogenic Iceland has been exhaustedly covered. Every visitor to Iceland has taken a picture similar to this. Perhaps I'll focus more on...

Vientiane has become a familiar name in the past few days because of the 49th ASEAN foreign ministers meeting. Lao’s capital Vientiane,...

I'm still wondering if the two figures I saw at the magnificent Phapeng Falls are real or not 我到今天還懷疑 Phapeng 瀑布石頭上的人，是真是假 We entered...

Digging for the truth 發掘真相 Nothing much happened in the ensuing centuries; just the usual merging and splitting, rebellions and...

Link to previous post: Xishuangbanna 链接到上一篇：西雙版納 I know it’s downright silly to attempt summarising a country’s history in a hundred...

Whoever has heard of a border city in Xishuangbanna called Jing Hong? Just short of half a million inhabitants, it’s neither here nor...

Dusk at Jing Mai Shan 景邁山暮色 Inside Jing-Mai Shan (Shan means Mountain) is one of the oldest natural tea plantations in Yunan Province...

These days, when travelling, I often feel a precocious sense of nostalgia. The photos that I take could become mini time-capsules much...

Ah! Soho! Sounds so Chinese. But the name originated in London, probably as hunting grounds for Henry Number Eight and friends. Nobody’s...

要瞭解格魯吉亞的處境，失業率是個好參數。蘇聯瓦解後，格魯吉亞獨立，失業率狂飆至85%，社會動蕩了二十多年。現在比較安定，失業率降了下來，仍然停留在65%的懸崖邊上。導遊指出，格魯吉亞人的傳統本領是務農和打仗。現在人口只有三百多萬，要把本事擴大，經濟多元化，談何容易？美國，北...

A capella singer in a stone chamber at Garni, Armenia 在亚美尼亚古迹 Garni 石室清唱圣诗的歌手 我將阿塞拜疆與亞美尼亞兩個世仇放在一起，是對他們的一種友好祝願。早在一戰前，這兩族人一有機會便你插我眼珠，我咬你耳朵...

We are supposed to be tolerant of religion no matter how absurd it is; but religions have not been very tolerant of others. Throughout...

A few months ago, I was still misspelling Caucasus as “Caucuses”. Now that I’ve visited Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia for 18 days,...

在Levi 度假期間，收到友人分享一篇香港 “南華早報” 的報導，說 Lapland 近年的中國旅客，有激增之勢。作者的論點奇特。他解釋中國人到Lapland旅遊，是因為國內基督教崛起。他引述美國Purdue 大學楊教授（有中文名的美國教授，當然是中國國情專家啦！）的見解，...