Donald S. Lopez Jr. : Encounters with Great Texts and Great Lamas (#117)
The Wisdom Podcast
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Was He a Cultural Critic?
Was he critical of how slow tibet was to be modernized? Or was he not really a cultural critic like that? You know, this is a big question. Ah, so yet, his travels were entire in india and trilanca, and then came back to lasa, and he was the toast of the town. He'd become a real tibetan nationalist when he wanted to start writinga history of tibet. But he had been involved at some level with something called the tibet improvement party, at least invites s name. They were being watched by the british and by the indians. His name appeared on some list. And
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