Lhasa

Yeah.

Um, uh, when I was in Shalin Temple, one time I, I was in Lhasa and I was with this master, uh, who came basically out of retirement to help teach me along, and w- it was because I was becoming part of the Table of Ancients.

And so he took me into this room and, and it was way up in the top.

It was when Lhasa was still Lhasa, right? And, um, we, we sat there and we had this discussion, and he asked if I wanted, uh, tea.

I, I think tsampa or something like that they call it.

And I was like, "Sure." And it's like milk tea, and it was horrible.

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Uh, three things, uh, that I would like people to know is, one, I feel realized that nowadays many of the social, uh, media person or the YouTubers or, uh, the so-called the influencers, uh, they travel to Tibet and we have seen very fancy, uh, you know, the videos on the social media.

So now the question come is: where are they right now, uh, in Qam and when Tibetans are, you know, facing with the de-devastation? So where are these, uh, social media influencers, uh- W-where did you go when you were talking about how beautiful Shigatse is and how beautiful Kyirong is or the, how beautiful Lhasa is, right? So if you have been really keen on r- understanding the landscape, the culture, uh, so right now, you know, is the time that, you know, you have to show and what you have to witness and speak up.

So that is one thing that I really, really want to talk about, the whole, uh, you know, the people on, who are active on the YouTubes and the social media.

And then second, um, thing is that, um, um, when we talk about, uh, economic development, many people, they would like to say that, you know, Tibet is economically very developed as compared to the neighboring countries, right? But they don't understand the cost of that economic, uh, development of the Tibetan people.

actually, their sort of heritage, pre-heritage to that, if you like, is even older.

And that's thought to trace back to the Buddhist monks in Lhasa, which is actually in the Himalayas in central Tibet.

And the monks were very big on dog breeding and breeding small dogs, very similar to what you now see as a Shih Tzu.

And as you may have guessed, seeing as they bred them in Lhasa, their breeding efforts back then also gave rise to the Lhasa Apsa.

Now they called these little dogs, um, the little lion dog and the lion is a very, um, very important symbol, um, in Buddhism, meaning strength and courage.

Um, and they, so they called these plucky little dogs that had all this character in them, um, their lion, their lion dogs and.

Uh, Nanchang cloudy overnight and down to 24, sunny and 32 tomorrow.

Lhasa will be getting a light rainfall tonight and tomorrow, a low of eight, the high is 19.

Uh, elsewhere in Asia, Islamabad will see a light rainfall with a low of nine degrees.

The high is 32 Celsius on Tuesday.

So if we're carving them, how come people keep meeting them? Let me tell you about a woman named Alexandra David-Nayel.

She was a French opera singer turned Buddhist turned explorer, and in 1924 she walked into Lhasa, Tibet, disguised as a beggar – the first European woman known to have made it there – She wrote a book about her years there called Magic and Mystery in Tibet, and in it she described a practice the Tibetans called the tulpa, which she understood as a thought form, a being created by concentration so intense that it takes on a life of its own.

Being a skeptic by temperament, she decided to try it.

To avoid being influenced by the fierce deities painted on every wall around her, she chose, in her words, a most insignificant character, a monk, short and fat, of an innocent and jolly type.