sonny, well alright, thank you very much, you have helped me a great deal in my research for my senior thesis and for that I'd like to offer you a humble bouquet of parenthesis framing a potent excalamtion mark. (((!))) On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Sundeep Dougal wrote: > 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 > > > > >