Tibet

[BreakSelf]

Not when it involves cultural genocide.

it's kind of a funny samsara irony that hasn't been lost on the Dalai Lama. what goes around comes around..
Karmic retribution and samsara are fundamentally antithetical to the notion of irony.

 

[tripledouble]

. Summer 2007 was the first in the past 5 years that I did not spend in Tibet.

hows the diggin overthere? any spots?

 

[BreakSelf]

. Summer 2007 was the first in the past 5 years that I did not spend in Tibet.

hows the diggin overthere? any spots?
ZERO. On my first trip I actually brought an LP with me for reference. No luck whatsoever.

Cassettes, on the other hand, are HUGE.

 

[Danno3000]

For the record, I am not just some Free Tibet (Concert) hippie schmuck. I am a normal schmuck who happens to have a bachelors in Tibetan studies from the University of Michigan. Summer 2007 was the first in the past 5 years that I did not spend in Tibet.

Out of curiosity, what does a degree in Tibetan studies lead to?

 

[BreakSelf]

For the record, I am not just some Free Tibet (Concert) hippie schmuck. I am a normal schmuck who happens to have a bachelors in Tibetan studies from the University of Michigan. Summer 2007 was the first in the past 5 years that I did not spend in Tibet.

Out of curiosity, what does a degree in Tibetan studies lead to?
Well, I spent the first couple of years out of school leading teenagers on cultural expeditions through Kham and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, which was pretty cool. In the long-term, however, there isn't much you can do with the degree other than go back to school, get a doctorate, and teach. Either that or find an NGO in Dharamsala to work for. For me, the degree was a way to pursue my interest in Buddhist thought (specifically, the Madhyamika view espoused by Nagarjuna).

I also got a degree in developmental psychology, which is what I'm studying now at Stanford. I'm not crazy about the program, though, and will probably leave with my Masters rather than staying on for the doctorate (which would take a full 6 years). At this point, I don't really want to do anything with my life.

 

[tripledouble]

At this point, I don't really want to do anything with my life.

brother, you have obviously attained enlightenment

 

[BreakSelf]

At this point, I don't really want to do anything with my life.

brother, you have obviously attained enlightenment

...along with a crippling addiction to youtube and soulstrut

 

[Danno3000]

At this point, I don't really want to do anything with my life.

brother, you have obviously attained enlightenment

...along with a crippling addiction to youtube and soulstrut

Ask me how I feel I'm when working the man (in the form of Canada's largest law firm) in four months....

 

[hcrink]

Doing things is vastly over-rated.

 

[Ex-Boyfriend]

Not when it involves cultural genocide.

Just admit that u dont really care and are just posturing.

 

[theory9]

Not when it involves cultural genocide.

I admit that I am just posturing.

 

[williedynamite]

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. Summer 2007 was the first in the past 5 years that I did not spend in Tibet.


hows the diggin overthere? any spots?



ZERO. On my first trip I actually brought an LP with me for reference. No luck whatsoever.

Cassettes, on the other hand, are HUGE.

I've spent quite a bit of time there too and haven't seen a single record either. Had sort of assumed records never made it to Tibet -- but recently discovered I was wrong... a Tibetan studies professor who I work with apparently found some Tibetan records at an antiques market in Chengdu. They're old (pre-1959) and very brittle, so he's reluctant to play them and has no clue what they contain. Eventually he plans to encode them with a laser turntable.

 

[williedynamite]

you do realize modern day Tibetans are genetically descended from settlers coming from the crumbling Mongol Horde?



There is actually relatively little consensus as to the origins of the Tibetan people. It seems likely that they are partial descendants of Mongols, but the lineage is by no means pure.

as I understand it, Tibetans are the descendants of a rock oggress mother and compassionate monkey father -- at least according to their creation myth...

 

[BreakSelf]

Not when it involves cultural genocide.

Just admit that u dont really care and are just posturing.
Go back to your communal farm and shut up, you freedom hater.

 

[BreakSelf]

as I understand it, Tibetans are the descendants of a rock oggress mother and compassionate monkey father -- at least according to their creation myth...

That's the gist of it. The monkey father was actually an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddhist god of compassion.