Word: drepung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gods. An unusual travel book, particularly outstanding for its photographs, it describes his journey from India through the 18,000-foot passes of the Himalayas, the diplomatic wangling which got him an official invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet from James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Lama Bernard...