Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abbey in Kentucky to participate in a conference of monastic leaders near Bangkok. The trip was also to be a long-awaited personal encounter with the spiritual disciplines of the East, particularly the esoteric forms of Buddhism that Merton wished to explore in India with the exiled lamas of Tibet...
...back to Square 1. They say that the Soviet Union and India together are attempting to encircle China. This is utter nonsense. We are not attacking anyone, and I don't think the Soviet Union wants war with anyone. Then there is the matter of Tibet. We are said sometimes to be encouraging revolt, but we have neither the capacity nor the resources to do so. We have always recognized China's sovereignty there...
Died. Charles Suydam Cutting, 83, naturalist and explorer, who in 1935 led an expedition to Tibet's remote, Shangri-La city of Lhasa; of a cerebral hemorrhage; on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. In 1925, Cutting set out for Central Asia on the first of many expeditions in search of rare animal species. A decade later he made the most famous of all his journeys when, after five years of plying the Dalai Lama with gifts, he was invited to visit and crossed the Himalayas to the nearly inaccessible 7th century city of Lhasa...
Part of the reason may be that younger women are tired of delicate floral scents. Part may also be musk oil's reputation as an aphrodisiac, which dates back several thousand years. Before the Chinese sealed the border between Tibet and Nepal, oil from the scent gland of the Tibetan musk deer was selling for as much as $600 per kilogram in India. The new perfumes, however, are made from chemicals...
...have found this nice concern for the law somewhat ironic.) I suppose, however, that you are right in saying that there would not be a bloodbath in Taiwan unless the survivors were unwise enough to resist consolidation: they would instead be simply shipped off to some scenic part of Tibet for reeducation...