Subject: Re: Dalai Lama to visit Cornell (was Re: TIBET: 1991 IS YEAR OF TIBET) From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson) Date: 1991-01-31, 10:49 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article jym@berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes: )) A highlight of the Dalai Lama's visit will be a free public talk )) scheduled for Tuesday, March 26, at 6 p.m. in Barton Hall. )__ Two months to the day after he appeared in Cooper's dream. )_ By the way, does anyone know anything about the actor who ) played the Dalai Lama in that sequence? It was Phil Silvers, which is inspired casting if you know about the Phil Silvers/Dalai Lama controversy. Y'see images of the Dalai Lama are highly illegal in Tibet. The Dalai Lama looks amazingly like Phil Silvers, though, so people started smuggling Sgt. Bilko images into Tibet. Also note, by the way: David Lynch Dalai Lama Coincidence? Or something deeper? )__ Also, a friend of mine who knows Nepalese said the subtitles )_ didn't match up. He doesn't know it very well, so he can't ) tell me what he thinks the Dalai Lama said. Any people out ) there who know Nepalese? That's because it wasn't Nepalese, it was Tibetan. Not even in the same language *family*. Are you sure your friend wasn't pulling your leg? People have been known to make stuff up about this episode, you know. (The Tibetan was just a bunch of Lamaistic mumbo-jumbo about some white (or maybe cream-colored?) building--a barracks or guest house? (Outhouse?) I know Burmese, which is from the other end of the Tibeto-Burman family, but my Tibetan is pretty marginal. I can recognize it when it's spoken, but that's about it.) Hope this helps. -- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "The sun is one foot wide" --Heraclitus