[lit-ideas] Re: Belly Up to the Bardo

Eric Yost wrote:

a funny riff on the Dalai Lama trading places with a gansta lookalike, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch for a very large sum of money. As I learned this afternoon on the Jackson Park bus, 'dalai' is the Mongolian word for ocean, so that Dalai Lama means 'spiritual leader of great depth.' I think the LA connection—Los Angeles' being on the ocean and all—thus itself gains depth (for those in the know, like you and me). What I don't fully understand is how it occurred to Mongolians, let alone Tibetans, to come up with a word denoting the ocean.

Robert Paul
Mutton College


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