Talk:Losang Samten

Which kind of Geshe is he?
I'd originally put a "disambiguation needed" tag in after the first mention of Mr. Samten's Geshe degree. It's since been removed -- perfectly fine by me; it definitely looks better -- but figured I'd throw this out here for anyone who knows more about it than I do.

There are different kinds of Geshe degrees awarded by different Tibetan monasteries. I don't believe it's just the case that one is "higher" than another, either, but also that certain kinds of Geshe degree originate only from one monastery (or tantric college) or from another.

Perhaps this discussion more properly belongs on the talk page for Geshe, but knowing as little as I do about the subject I figured I'd float it here before going in over there and making a meaningless hash outta things.

Thanks to user Yworo, by the way, for this and many other very helpfully instructive, incredibly precise edits without which I doubt this entry would be well on its way to being up to snuff. :^) :^) Cheers, Xeltifon (talk) 07:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

University of Texas at El Paso
User:TomStar81 is factually correct in his edit summary at diff that "El Paso is not a state and Texas is not a city", but the name of the institution itself is, in fact, "The University of Texas at El Paso" (as I believe the University's own website, utep.edu will adequately attest). I do agree the nomenclature is somewhat confusing. Rather than simply revert his edit back to "University of Texas, El Paso", though, I'm going to change it to read (more accurately) "University of Texas at El Paso" in the hopes that using "at" in place of the comma will help to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. So basically, sorry to change your edit to something completely different here, but heck! Please know it was worthwhile, if only because by having made it you got it changed to something more accurate than what had been there in the first place. :^) :^)

All the best, ༺།།ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ།།འཚེར།།xeltifon།།སར་ཝ་མང་ག་ལམ།།༻ &#123;say it&#125; &#123; ζ(3) &#125; &#123;did it&#125; 19:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Duh. Now I'm really confused.  I think your change was correct after all.  Well bloody hell.  I also think it's right now, anyway, so what the heck.


 * All the best, ༺།།ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ།།འཚེར།།xeltifon།།སར་ཝ་མང་ག་ལམ།།༻ &#123;say it&#125; &#123; ζ(3) &#125; &#123;did it&#125; 19:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Early life autobiographical sketch
Just "parking" a link to this here for the moment — — in which Mr. Samten primarily details the first ten or so years of his life, from his birth in Tibet to his first meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India in the early ’sixties.

My internet connection hasn’t been particularly cooperative lately, nor is it likely to become sufficiently so in the next eleven days that I’ll be able to do much work here in that timeframe — if, indeed, any at all. Tempting though it may be to simply drop this under "External links" — or worse, just casually drop in a pithy quote or two — I do fully expect that I will need to very thoroughly review WP policies and guidelines regarding primary sources, self-published accounts, biographies of living persons, and the like before launching too terribly haphazardly back into the fray of things.

Yet because I also can't help thinking this account might at least help "pin down" some details like dates, place names, and the name (and role) of Mr. Samten’s uncle, I also feel that I would be remiss to not at least put a link to it here in the meantime for anyone who might want to make some use of it before I get back around these parts — before too terribly long, I expect.

Be well, ༺།།ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ།།འཚེར།།xeltifon།།སར་ཝ་མང་ག་ལམ།།༻ &#123;say it&#125; &#123; ζ(3) &#125; &#123;did it&#125; 23:19, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Factual Error
"In 1988, Samten was charged by the 14th Dalai Lama to come to the United States to demonstrate the sand mandala art form; marking the first time that a Tibetan mandala was constructed in the West" while sourced, is factually wrong, specifically the word "first". A sand mandala was constructed for the Kalachakra initiation in Wisconsin in 1981, and while that may not have been the first, it was before 1988. I don't know how to rephrase the sentence, so put all your "be bold"s in a bag, mister! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.166.249 (talk) 19:19, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes and there would have been another sand mandala made at the Kalachakra Initiation at Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1985. MacPraughan (talk) 12:16, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

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