--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > Rory didn't deal specifically with the issue of > > how the Tibetans would have gained seafaring > > experience when they don't have a seacoast, which > > is what I was asking.>> > > Well, sorry for that. One of the assumptions that I was talking > about previously that we have all been spoon fed is that because a > culture is deep inland it must have been be sea-faring inept. This > is unlikely since Tibetans travelled far and wide. Buddhism > naturally spread across Tibet and China for the sole reason that > they were not really distinct and travelled with ease. Ancient > humans were Master Travellers. If the emporers of China lived on > the East coast, and the Chinese had ships easily capable of > crossing oceans without a big hoohaa, then we might say 'the > Chinese knew how to sail oceans'. That means those living in the > West of China also... the educated ones... would have known and > even seen or travelled with this method. Tibet was essentially part > of China, or a province, and there really is no difference in the > interchange of knowledge. Add to that that Tibetans were educated > and known to travel and encouraged this as part of their spiritual > tradition it seems normal to me, though not as obvious as say those > living by the coast. Then you have to delve in to Sanskrit, and the > Vedas, to see that the concept of the ocean and travelling the > ocean was not foreign to people livng in Afghanisthan and the > Pakistani Mountains (near Tibet/China). Ancient humans were Master > Travellers.
OK, so the Tibetans would have traveled to the coasts and picked up the experience there. I mean, interchange of knowledge is one thing, but you gotta have access to an ocean if you're going to use a knowledge of seafearing. I just wasn't aware that Tibetans had a tradition of exploration at all, let alone one that would have led them to want to make sea journeys. Thanks for the explanation. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
