tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post7674192905377226110..comments2024-03-22T14:47:42.501+02:00Comments on Tibeto-logic: Yaks, a Few Useful BitsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-49212818180251609632019-10-27T22:08:12.784+02:002019-10-27T22:08:12.784+02:00Dear Tina,
No, it doesn't count as commercial ...Dear Tina,<br />No, it doesn't count as commercial as long as it's a book that one might reasonably expect to find in a free lending library within driving distance. I'm afraid I never did get to see the dissertation, but I did get the book, Geographical Diversions: Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions, published by the University of Georgia Press. I'll read it before long. I recently learned from an optimistic demographer that humans won't top 10 Billion until the end of the century, so maybe there is hope for a few of the wild animals to be able to move and breathe, you think?<br /><br />Yours, DDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-91323547146245596312013-07-13T16:16:57.423+03:002013-07-13T16:16:57.423+03:00Dear Dan (and Arno),
What a illuminating blog pos...Dear Dan (and Arno),<br /><br />What a illuminating blog post; I've just stumbled upon it today in preparation for speaking about yak tails (in a very roundabout way, I'm afraid - none of this great detail here on this page) at this year's IATS. Many thanks for it. <br /><br />If it is of any interest, my thesis that you mention above is now a book: http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/geographical_diversions<br /> There's not too much about yak tails in there, but they remain a longstanding interest.<br /><br />I do hope the link above doesn't count as a link to a commercial page as per the guidelines below. If so, feel free to remove it.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br /><br />Tina HarrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-48343706085178184282011-04-21T22:51:19.538+03:002011-04-21T22:51:19.538+03:00Hi Dan,
Tina Harriss' On the Tail of the Yak:...Hi Dan,<br /><br />Tina Harriss' <i>On the Tail of the Yak: The Social Geography of Tibetan Trade</i>, which you mentioned above, was submitted under a slightly different title (omitting the yak tail), as I realized today:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/silk-roads-and-wool-routes-the-social-geography-of-tibetan-trade/oclc/436871365" rel="nofollow">Christina Honjo Harris. <i>Silk roads and wool routes : the social geography of Tibetan trade.</i> Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 2009, 236 pages.</a><br /><br />Sorry, just a note to myself, so that I have the proper details at hand when I stumble across this blog in 15 years or so.<br /><br />Yours, ArnoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-6079115978269055482010-06-09T18:21:35.008+03:002010-06-09T18:21:35.008+03:00I had to chuckle recently when I saw Rhys Davids c...I had to chuckle recently when I saw Rhys Davids comment on the tail-protecting metaphor <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/buddhistbirth00daviuoft/buddhistbirth00daviuoft_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">"which to us appears wanting in dignity."</a><br /><br />I suppose more because it concerns a tail than that it concerns a yak? Surely there was no intention to suggest that the yak might lack dignity.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-892743417650004722010-06-09T14:13:54.637+03:002010-06-09T14:13:54.637+03:00Dear Dan,
... well, more than two years later, I...Dear Dan, <br /><br />... well, more than two years later, I found myself stumbling across a passage in the Buddhavaṃsa (II, verse 123) where the (here: female) yak's unwillingness to part with their tail-hair and rather die instead is (like in the verse you cited) mentioned as a simile in connection with "morality", or right conduct (śīla) - this is in a list of the ten perfections that the bodhisatta is to cultivate. Nice to stumble across this blog entry that likewise relates this simile!kellnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759245453021855805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-59360828531349885102008-03-21T20:36:00.000+02:002008-03-21T20:36:00.000+02:00Dear PSz,I won't correct you, because you're not w...Dear PSz,<BR/><BR/>I won't correct you, because you're not wrong. But personally I'd never confess to eating the stuff. Don't feel flattered. Feel proud. We'll have to talk more.<BR/><BR/>Yours,<BR/>DanDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-38569387033638747302008-03-21T19:57:00.000+02:002008-03-21T19:57:00.000+02:00Gosh, I'm flattered! Thank you for the dedication!...Gosh, I'm flattered! Thank you for the dedication! It seems silly, but I just found out you might have 'something' to do with the 'tibskrit' file which I use every day. Correct me if I'm wrong. <BR/><BR/>Btw, yak-burgers in Sa skya are quite good :) <BR/><BR/>pPDSzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14028181531501748621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-84706884413747594482008-03-18T11:24:00.000+02:002008-03-18T11:24:00.000+02:00I received an extremely long email from an anonymo...I received an extremely long email from an anonymous writer. I would let it get posted here, but it is long, much longer even than my own blog postings. And besides, it could be my fault, but I have to confess that I hardly understood any of it. I'll paste in the beginning of it below, just as a sample. I do want to encourage free and open speech here (the only exception being overly strong expressions of emotional poisons), and I'd be the last one to say that truth might not be found in things I don't understand. Clear?<BR/><BR/>Yours,<BR/>Dan<BR/><BR/>Here is the sample from the anonymous comment (that means I didn't write it myself!) — —<BR/><BR/>Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Yaks, a Few Useful Bits": <BR/><BR/>Tibet has fallen prey to the Big Lie of democracy, just as the Vietnamese did decades ago.<BR/><BR/>Like aging, sleep is behavior forced upon us.<BR/>News story on sleep research, a good example of how education is preditory, deceptive.<BR/>People aren't fresher or sharper because of good sleep. The gods control all this. <BR/>Actually, they've mentioned that people with favor don't have to sleep and, like aging, sleep is behavior forced upon us.<BR/>This is today's research. Expect this applies to early research as well. <BR/>Incidentally, the gods create male superiority in the fields of computers, science and math for preditory reason.<BR/>---------------------------------------<BR/>Search "finalprophet" and the Man in the Moon paragraph to find my sound file web site.<BR/>---------------------------------------<BR/>There is one geographic clue I have not addressed in years:::Uranus, a planet tilted 90 degrees on its axis. I have stated in years past that I think this is yet another geographic clue offered by the gods, this one suggesting the fate of planet Earth, that tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth's axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction.<BR/>Undesirables will either perish in the government marijuana erradication program "gone awry" or be the recipients of reparations granted by the US government because of it. <BR/>Or both.<BR/>I believe the New Testiment battle of the Anti-Christ and the Second Coming of Christ will ocurr in subsequent years SPECIFICALLY because these people will be distracted with the money during the event.<BR/>When the Earth's axis shifts people will be cast into outer space with gold cards in hand.<BR/>I think this was foreshadowed on an episode of the Simpsons where Homer and Bart are on the disfavored ship and eject, only to experience a sense of euphoria, expand then explode in the vacuum of space.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-36755174665107850492008-03-18T03:05:00.000+02:002008-03-18T03:05:00.000+02:00There sure is...and I'm on the case 24/7..Bhod Ran...There sure is...and I'm on the case 24/7..Bhod Ranzen Tsangma Yin!<BR/><BR/>'Allen'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-84740207432887033652008-03-17T15:05:00.000+02:002008-03-17T15:05:00.000+02:00Dear Caution,Throwing caution to the wind, I'm wil...Dear Caution,<BR/><BR/>Throwing caution to the wind, I'm willing to bet a silk pajama you must be thinking about Yakity Yak, The Coasters, 1958. Am I wrong?<BR/><BR/>Take out the papers and the trash<BR/>Or you don't get no spendin' cash<BR/>If you don't scrub that kitchen floor<BR/>You ain't gonna rock and roll no more<BR/>Yakety yak (don't talk back)<BR/><BR/>Duh huh? Insert animated smiley please! Now there are a lot of serious matters to go back to worrying about. Thanks for the funny interlude.<BR/><BR/>Yours,<BR/>DanDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-63897067207141796072008-03-16T22:23:00.000+02:002008-03-16T22:23:00.000+02:00I wonder if a yak-bone comb was ever dragged acros...I wonder if a yak-bone comb was ever dragged across that immortal quif sported by the 'King' himself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com