tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304792190086448127.post2070426063769492100..comments2024-02-04T01:37:53.246-08:00Comments on Mountain Phoenix over Tibet: Book Review: "Grains Of Gold" By Gedun ChoephelMountain Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01726933027905675503noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304792190086448127.post-59095383313616259042014-07-10T23:02:10.824-07:002014-07-10T23:02:10.824-07:00I like the theme, and I appreciate your review MPT...I like the theme, and I appreciate your review MPT. <br /><br />I wonder if there ever existed a scholarly layman in our history? Some nobleman perhaps ala D'Holbach? Was Marpa a layman? hmmm...<br /><br />Anyway, poor Gundun Chophel, such a lucid individual stuck in a dreamy world. That's what he gets for attempting to wake the denizens of sleepy Tibet. His tragedy reminds me of Socrates, another guy who loved to annoy the people and the establishment with pesky questions, demolishing arguments, bruising egos til charges were trumped up, of corrupting the youth, of blasphemy. The polymath's life didn't seem to have ended well, good median though. Got to travel widely, experienced so much. A celibate who discovered the joys of sex and freely wrote about it.(which probably made him even more condescending hahah) Above all, he acquired a treasure trove of new found knowledge, surely the summum bonum of erudite eggheads like GC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com