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Forums > Living in Kunming > Buddhism and the cause of suffering

Well, it's practiced by people in Kunming.

@Yankee: The Asian/European distinction was quite a bit different a couple thousand years ago, from what it is now. More important civilizational distinctions at the time would have been Mediterranean, Iranian, Indian, Chinese etc. worlds. For the most part, 'Europe' as we think of it didn't mean a whole lot, and anything north of the Alps didn't count for much. The Mediterranean World was no more 'European' than it was 'African' or 'Middle Eastern'. Then time passed and things got rearranged, and at some point the ideas of 'western' and 'nonwestern' came into being, especially after the Rome/Byzantium split and then the new development of Abrahamic religion that was Islam.

Our heads have all been rearranged by changing local concentrations of power and the belief systems that allow them to keep doin what they're doin.

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Good that you have access to, and can publish, these old photos.
Interesting that the one photo that could have been taken in many places in Yunnan today is the 9th one, of the temple - virtually no difference in the widespread architectural style.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.