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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Drove into Tibet over the high Himalaya passes from Kathmandu.  I was following the route of the Indian sage who brought Buddhism to Tibet sometime in the 9th c.  They say he rode in on a Siberian tiger.  I took a kind of cross between a jeep and a mini bus.  Not quite as exciting [...]