Despite the ridiculous title, I get the feeling this next Savage Minds essay was a little less widely read. This may have something to do with the fact that the technicalities of Tibetan exile secularism and school curricula have less of a wide appeal than some of the other subjects I’ve covered. Whatever the case, I think that this particular Tibetan origin myth and elaborations on it are super, and are a rich example of the kinds of complicated developments around secularization and the preservation of indigenous knowledge that are taking place right now in Tibetan diaspora.

Also, yetis.

http://savageminds.org/2015/10/15/my-mother-was-a-rock-ogress-yeti-monster-true-tales-of-dharma-demons-and-darwin/