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Word: takster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo, its members were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant, by the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOD IN EXILE | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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