Friday, November 24, 2006

Tibet activist sets himself afire

"Mumbai was once "Bombay" and if it had been Nepal's flags, it would have been two flags, pennants. In Nepal the "Maoists" have brokered a peace with the government. There have been studies that show that at one time, Nepal and Tibet share a road again opened, some of the language hundreds of years ago, where Buddhism it's thought came from to Tibet, was shared." Newsvine comment

It was just a comment about Nepal and Tibet as neighbors. If Maoists (in a Hindu run country) they are and the problems Tibet has with China resulted from the "cultural revolution" and other Chinese "Maoist" involvement in Tibet's heritage and scholarship I meant to suggest that sherpas (in Nepal) and Tibetans share some language which suggests former contact across the Himalayas, what and how I'm not sure.

Sir Edmund Hillary visited my 3rd grade class in 1960 Wood Road Elementary in Centereach, NY and explained how lucky we were to have schools and was and is involved in building schools in Nepal. As an undergraduate anthro major I had a social anthropology class with Rex Jones who wrote with Shirley Jones the "Himalayan Woman" about changing roles partly due to economics among the Limbu people of Nepal.

In the anthropology department at Stony Brook University at the time the chairperson was Pedro Carrasco a Mexican scholar of economic anthropology who I think had to flee on horseback one of the Chinese military invasions of Tibet, where he had been studying their markets. I never asked, but we did have a Tibetan graduate student from U. of Arizona, from Darjeeling, Yugen Gombo, who I heard offhand said some of the "Star Wars" language was Mongolian.

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