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simplistic. These Buddhas are Buddhas
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Chinese. and non-Tibetan Buddhas. The Buddhas Tibetans
are much leaner and more serious. This would be a
mistake of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, but as Tibetans
were not home, they had not dared challenge and had
gradually accustomed to living among the Chinese
Buddhas. The Buddhas of their terrifying invaders. Of their
persecutors. Of those who had destroyed their people.
The skull of bald men rough, like rubbed sandpaper,
greeted us without knowing us. They were draped in saffron
robes were spinning cylinders of woodcuts. They chanted
texts I did not perceive its meaning.
Then they gathered around a recumbent. Stefania we
suggested to join them. A lama began to recite a poem that
the Italian multilingual, we translated simultaneously.
“O son, our son, what we call death is now arrival: You leave
this world but you are not alone in this case, the Death
comes to all.
Does not remain attached to this life of weakness.