Re: a nagging query
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0700 (MST)
Nice going sonny, it sounds like our man jerry has more than one
"L.Manning Vines" up his sleeves, will
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Sundeep Dougal wrote:
> Tsiang Samdup
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> Yeah, so okay, it worked, your bait!
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> 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:
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> 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.
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