Re: a nagging query

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Tsiang Samdup

Yeah, so okay, it worked, your bait! 

Seriously, though, I had it in my list of possible questions to go into the
FAQ but desisted thinking that not many may have wondered about Tsiang
Samdup, thinking him to be some Tibetan monk or the other, as I did at
first. This one, I actually unnecessarily took quite a while to find only
because the most obvious search methods of them all didn't occur to me
somehow. All the searches in various indexes (indices?) to Buddhist/Tibetan
texts was futile. Till finally a general web search threw up the details.
He turned out to be a character in a fictional work! Made me feel quite the
opposite of smart and scholarly, I assure you. Anyway, enough background:

Apparently, Tsiang Samdup is a Tibetan Lama in a 1922 novel called OM by
one Talbot Mundy who apparently was a regular contributor to a magazine
called _Adventure_ (the time frame fits too, for his other Tibetan novels
are all post-1924). More details must be somewhere in my archives, but you
should be able to find out more about Mundy and Samdup from, say, an
altavista search.


Sonny

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