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Did Vairocana have lice?
According to Pasang Wangdu and Hildegaard Diemberger’s translation of the dBa’ bzhed, [1] Pa gor Vairocana, the great translator and Buddhist culture hero of Imperial-period Tibet, might have been absolutely crawling with the repulsive little creatures. There is a passage in the dBa’ bzhed which … Continue reading
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