The Archive · 1937

Soldiers from Lhasa

Among the strangers in the town at the present time are a number of Thinks of Nothing the nomad thinks at all he mere-thinks of nothing because there nothing to think about. And to prove This, Tomaalsm has evolved. eighteen different Kinds of vacuity, emptiness, fand voidness, some of which are followsi—a). The non-existence of the inside; (b) the non-existence of (c) the unreality of the Inside-outside; (d the emptiness of emptiness; Ce} the beginning of emptlness; and (O) the end of emptiness. 'And when the nomad and the lama have arrived at the end of the elghteen different: kinds of vacuity they have arrived at the point reached by Prof, Whitehead after 50 years study. 'This nomadic. philocephy, however. works very gently away' up in. the hhomadie encampment. But when the fame. nomed and merchant come {0 Tachienlu and discover the city crowded with nice things to eat, to wear ave Yo play with, emptiness and nothingness may be all ight as 9 Working Fypothests; he now seeks {Ml these empty spaces with all fan afford to buy. the nomed begins his dissipation in 'Tachienlu bythe purchase. of leet (over. Tf his wife ang family fe Inclined Yo belittle his ability: "to fhine™ Ie will soon show them how it' ly done. An electric torch. with three "flashlight batteries and the Jama walks back into the darkness of the Forbidden Land quite. prepared face anything.

'The 'Tibetan merchant has some rupees to spare s0 a good investment in dozen or #0 elvetse torches: they make, very. good and useful presents and "obameh" Is the ame's. god of Tight, "Shopping is always. bowilder-Ing' occupation and more' so to the wilaand' woolly nomad.

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