Lovely write-up; although it’s a familiar trope it never gets tired. I’ll admit to a similar sense of thrill when tripping over untranslated material - not quite the origin story, but still a sense of discovery and the potential excitement of sharing it.
"Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives" by Michael Aris includes a wonderful account of found texts in Bhutanese Buddhism, focusing on Pemalingpa (1450–1521) . Aris had the most extraordinary life: tutor to the Bhutanese royal family, then married to Aung San Suu Kyi. He died of cancer in 1999. Someone ought to write a biography.
Lovely write-up; although it’s a familiar trope it never gets tired. I’ll admit to a similar sense of thrill when tripping over untranslated material - not quite the origin story, but still a sense of discovery and the potential excitement of sharing it.
"Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives" by Michael Aris includes a wonderful account of found texts in Bhutanese Buddhism, focusing on Pemalingpa (1450–1521) . Aris had the most extraordinary life: tutor to the Bhutanese royal family, then married to Aung San Suu Kyi. He died of cancer in 1999. Someone ought to write a biography.
Self-insert fan fiction is something that predates the founding of AO3.com by a few millennia, it seems!