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Tibetan A Ice Lhamo: The World Beneath the Tents lV by Jeanette Snyder

  As I watched the performance of the play, I noticed how the actors carefully paced the action and continually adjusted the story to fit the audience response and preferences. Some sections were lengthened, others were shortened. When a particular actor’s characterization was well received, more time was tacitly allowed for extra pantomime or ad

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Tibetan A Ice Lhamo: The World Beneath the Tents lll by Jeanette Snyder

The play we were about to see, Padma ‘od ‘bar, is based on a story of about a former life of Padmasambhava, the eighth century Indian teacher and yogin who is famous for the part he played in the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, especially his conversion of all Tibet’s pre–Buddhist nature deities into Protectors of

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Tibetan A Ice Lhamo: The World Beneath the Tents by Jeanette Snyder

In 1964 my mother, Jeanette Snyder, then a graduate student in Tibetan Studies at the University of Washington, received a Fulbright Grant to study Tibetan theater in India, Nepal, and Sikkim, countries that had welcomed the flow of Tibetan exiles after the 1959 uprising. As a child, awaiting her return in the States, I loved

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