Index| Group | Where | Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thugee | India | 1850 | Anthony, Piers. Faith of Tarot. New York: Berkley Books (10th printing 1986; 1st ed. 1980); pg. 22. | "'...Siva's consort, the multi-armed Goddess Kali, the Power of Nature and the ruthless cruelty of Nature's laws. In her honor the Thuggees killed thousands of--' " |
| Thugee | India | 1872 | Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Translated by George M. Towle. New York: Bantam (1988; c. 1873); pg. 37. | [Chapter 11] "The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway. These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction. The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites. " |
| Thugee | India | 1939 | Willis, Connie. Remake. New York: Bantam (1995); pg. 1. | "It was an early Spielberg liveaction, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom... The liveaction was made in '84, at the very beginning of the computer graphics revolution, and it had a few CG sections: digitized Thugees being thrown off a cliff... " |
| Thugee | India: Calcutta | 1977 | Simmons, Dan. Song of Kali. New York: Tor (1998; c. 1985); pg. 68. | "'Even I knew that for several years gangs of Asian thugees and Calcutta's own goondas had run entire sections of the city. They charged fees to the various refugees for entry and squatting rights; they controlled the flow of drugs to and through the city; and they murdered anyone who interfered with their traditional management of protection, smuggling, and crime in the city. Sanjay told me that even the pathetic slum-dwellers who paddled out from the chawls each evening to steal the blue and red navigation lights from the river for some purpose of their own paid a commission to the goondas. This commission was tripled after a goonda-chartered freighter--bound for Singapore with a cargo of opium and smugglers' gold--ran aground in the Hooghly because of missing channel lights...' " |
| Thugee | India: Calcutta | 1977 | Simmons, Dan. Song of Kali. New York: Tor (1998; c. 1985); pg. 256. | "'But we have no hard evidence yet that the thuggees, goondas, or the so-called Kapalikas are involved. It is also complicated by the fact that various criminal elements often call upon a corrupt, Tantric form of mysticism, frequently invoking local deities--in this case, Kali--in order to impress their initiates or to frighten the common people.' " |
| Thugee | Singapore | 2022 | Sterling, Bruce. Islands in the Net. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow (1988); pg. 174. | "Laura studied them. The guy in the linen suit was S. P. Jeyaratnam, Singapore's communications czar. A spiky-eyebrowed Tamil with the vaguely unctuous look of a sacred Thuggee stranger. " |
| Thugee | world | 1975 | Shea, Robert & Robert Anton Wilson. Illuminatus, Vol. III: Leviathan. New York: Dell (1975); pg. 29. | "'...the head of the John Dillinger Died for You Society, has written an analysis of Gunga Din, pointing out the real meaning of the thuggee, the evil goddess Kali, the pit of serpents, the elephant medicine, the blowing of the bugle from the top of the temple, and so forth. Gunga Din celebrates the imposition of law and order in an area terrorized by the criminal followers of a goddess who breeds evil and chaos. The thuggee are a caricature of the Discordians, and the English represent the Illuminati's view of themselves. The Illuminati love that movie.' " |
| Thugee | world | 1995 | Hand, Elizabeth. Waking the Moon. New York: HarperPrism (1995); pg. 274. | "As Ishtar, Au-Set, Isis, Artemis or Cybele, as the thuggees' Kali or Wilde's Salome... " |
| Thugee | world | 2010 | Brunner, John. Stand on Zanzibar. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1968); pg. 188. | "'Accused of reviving thuggee--you know, Kali worship?--and the crowd stormed the court and set them free.' " |
| Tibetan | California | 1995 | Powers, Tim. Earthquake Weather. New York: Tor (1997); pg. 20. | "'How far away are they?... Like, are they coming from Los Angeles? New York? Tibet? Mars?' " |
| Tibetan | California: Los Angeles | 1996 | Powers, Tim. Expiration Date. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 141. | Pg. 141: "Kootie remembered that Kethoomba was the Tibetan pronunciation of the name of the mahatma his parents had named him after. She had never called Kootie that. 'Gelugpa,' she went on, 'yellow-hatted monk! Come and get me!' "; Pg. 182: "'...Blavatsky was doing her wander-time around then too; Europe, Mexico, Tibet. " |
| Tibetan | California: San Francisco | 1986 | McIntyre, Vonda N. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. New York: Pocket Books (1986); pg. 81. | "'...Did you come all the way from Japan? I always wanted to go there, but I never made it. I spent a lot of time in Asia. Nepal, Tibet, and, well, Nam...' " [More, pg. 121.] |
| Tibetan | China | 19 C.E. | Anderson, Poul. The Boat of a Million Years. New York: Tor (1989); pg. 21. | "...to yonder frontier, to the realms of the Tibetans and Mongols and other barbarians... " |
| Tibetan | galaxy | 2352 | Cherryh, C. J. Downbelow Station. New York: DAW Books (1981); pg. 169. | Pg. 169: "Keu of India, silk-soft and confident; Sung of Pacific, all efficiency; Kant of Tibet, another of Sung's stamp. " [A starship named after Tibet.]; Pg. 170: "Norway, Libya, India, unit one; Europe, Tibet, Pacific, two; North Pole, Atlantic, Africa, three; Australia has its own business. "; Pg. 180: "Com and scan flurried into action, searching for the mote which was giant Tibet, which had jumped in before them, advance guard, in this rout. 'Affirmative,' com sent to command with comforting swiftness. Tibet was where she was supposed to be, intact, probe untouched... Tibet had one merchanter skip out in panic... " [Other refs. to this ship in book, but not in DB.] |
| Tibetan | Nepal | 2019 | Goonan, Kathleen Ann. Crescent City Rhapsody. New York: Tor (2001; c. 2000); pg. 152. | Pg. 165: Tibetan refugee (Also pg. 152.) |
| Tibetan | Texas | 1996 | Leon, Mark. The Unified Field. New York: Avon Books (1996); pg. 74. | "'I spent twenty years meditating and studying in Tibet and India. I am no stranger to secret doctrines...' " [also pg. 96] |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 500 C.E. | Garfinkle, Richard. Celestial Matters. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 110. | Pg. 110: "'Since that time... the Middle Kingdom has captured and in turn lost India and north Persia; the Spartan army has captured and lost Tibet and Xin...' "; Pg. 130: "General Tydeus, commander of the armies invading Tibet... " [Other references to Tibet, not in DB. Also, references to Buddhism as practiced in Tibet, mixed (in this novel) with Taoism. Some such references are listed in DB under 'Buddhism.'] |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1950 | Reynolds, Mack. "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial " in Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space. (Isaac Asimov, ed.) USA: Bluejay Books (1984); pg. 166. | "'Of terrestrial plants, lichen might survive transplanting to Mars and one may imagine that some of the desert flora of Tibet could be adapted...' " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1964 | Hoyle, Fred. The Black Cloud. New York: Harper & Row (1957); pg. 125. | "The evacuation of Tibet, Sinkiang, and Outer Mongolia was left to the Chinese. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1975 | Knight, Damon. "To Serve Man " in The Best of Damon Knight. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday (1976; c. 1950); pg. 16. | "If there was anybody on Earth besides Grigori who still distrusted those people, he must have been somewhere in the middle of Tibet. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1991 | Grubb, Jeff. "A Brother to Dragons " in Testament of the Dragon (Weis, Margaret, ed.) New York: HarperCollins (1997); pg. 72. | Pg. 72: "Butan. Alexandra said the notes pointed towards Butan, in Tibet. There would be the Drokpas, the followers of the Dragons Beyond. "; Pg. 73: "In the weeks and months which followed Alexandra's death, Justinian made his way slowly toward the sanctuary of the Drokpas in Tibet. If it really existed, if it was more than a whispered legend, he would find it. And within its walls, he would find the truth, and perhaps salvation. " [More references to Tibet, although not to Tibetans or anything genuinely Tibetan, pg. 74-75, and elsewhere. The fictional 'Drokpas' may or may not show some influence from the ancient Tibetan Bon tradition.] |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1992 | Huff, Tanya. Blood Trail. New York: DAW Books (1992); pg. 53. | - |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1992 | Snodgrass, Melinda M. Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire. New York: Bantam (1992); pg. 13. | "'And go where?' 'Tahiti, Tibet . . . Why does it have to be Takis?' " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1996 | Lee, Jim & Brandon Choi. "Auld Acquaintance " in Fantastic Four: Heroes Reborn. New York: Marvel Comics (2000; copyright 1996-97); pg. 122. | "'Victor [von Doom] should've died in that explosion. But he didn't. Perhaps it was hatred that kept him alive. In the end, he was expelled from State [University], and then left the country soon after, too ashamed to either admit his failure or face the rest of us. 'I heard rumors that he had gone to Tibet, seeking relief for the incredible pain plaguing his body. Or perhaps even to find final peace.' 'A poignant tale, Richards. But believe me, I found so much more! Needless to say, that was the end of the young man you once knew as Victor. Now, there is only Doctor Doom.' " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1999 | Banks, Iain. The Business. New York: Simon & Schuster (1999); pg. 218. | - |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 1999 | Kessel, John. Good News from Outer Space. New York: Tor (1990; c. 1989); pg. 262. | "'...They're parachuting portable TVs into the Amazon, Borneo, Tibet!...' " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2000 | Friedman, Michael Jan. X-Men: Shadows of the Past. New York: BP Books (2000); pg. 36. | "...in a remote walled village in Tibet. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2002 | Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1971); pg. 79. | "China was in equally deep on the Iraq-Iran side, though she hadn't yet sent in Chinese soldiers, only Tibetans, North Koreans, Vietnamese, and Mongolians. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2018 | Bova, Ben. Voyager II: The Alien Within. New York: Tor (1986); pg. 277. | - |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2034 | Goonan, Kathleen Ann. The Bones of Time. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 151. | "'Tibet? Does Tibet exist?' But of course it must--Hawkins had said that was where they were going...' ...'Well, the Tibetans think Tibet exists,' Akuma said... It guess it could be confusing. Tibet almost regained its status as a sovereign country during the Pacific Rim Alliance Summit in 2007. But China withdrew from the alliance before negotiations were complete. Anyway, I think that's where we are. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2038 | Goonan, Kathleen Ann. Crescent City Rhapsody. New York: Tor (2001; c. 2000); pg. 377. | Pg. 377: Tibet (also pg. 498) |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2045 | Barton, William. Acts of Conscience. New York: Warner Books (1997); pg. 24. | "By the middle of the twenty-first century, all the other great federative superpowers of the world [other than the U.S.] had come apart, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics breaking up into its fifteen constituent states... Siberia breaking free of the Russian Federation, then collapsing into six smaller nations. Sinkiang and Tibet and Mongolia breaking free of the Chinese Republic... " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2075 | Kress, Nancy. Beggars in Spain. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1993); pg. 287. | "...only his credit ring and the clothes on his back into India, Tibet, the Antarctic colonies, the central South American desert--always somewhere technologically backward, as close to primitive as a world fueled by Kenzo Yagai still possessed. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2127 | Card, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Hegemon. New York: Tor (2001); pg. 324. | "'Do you think the Chinese will be any kinder to our people than New Delhi has?' said the other. 'Remember how the Chinese treated Tibet and Taiwan! That is our future, because of him!' |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 2166 | Farmer, Philip Jose. "Riders of the Purple Wage " in The Hugo Winners: Volumes One and Two. (Isaac Asimov, ed.) Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday (1971; story copyright 1967); pg. 634. | "Ho Chung Ko, before his fido on the 30th level of Lhasa, Tibet, says to his wife, 'That white... has got it all wrong. Confucius didn't say that. Lenin preserve us! I'm going to call him up and give him hell.' " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 3000 | Bear, Greg. Legacy. New York: Tor (1995); pg. 73. | "The tallest building rose from the city's center on a low hill, four rounded stories, each eccentric from a central axis, beneath cantilevered pagoda roofs and porches that to me seemed lovely if ancient: Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, I thought, a touch of Tibet, Shangri-la, trying to remember fragments of terrestrial art history that I had explored before all my memory supplements had been removed. " |
| Tibetan | Tibet | 3088 | Stableford, Brian. "Mortimer Gray's History of Death " in Immortals (Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds.) New York: Ace Books (1998; c. 1995); pg. 247. | - |
| Tibetan | United Kingdom: London | 1995 | Ryman, Geoff. 253. New York: St. Martin's Press (1998); pg. 313. | "Miss Becky Patterson... Daughter of third-generation Zimbabwe farmers, with a degree in Tibetan. " |
| Tibetan | Utah | 1942 | Turtledove, Harry. Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance. New York: Del Rey (1996); pg. 232. | "For all the sense he had, me might as well have suddenly started speaking Tibetan. " |
| Tibetan | Washington, D.C. | 1982 | Straub, Peter. Koko. New York: E. P. Dutton (1988); pg. 105. | "...yellow journalism... It's right up there with BIGFOOD DEVOURS TIBETAN BABY. " |
| Tibetan | world | 1975 | Shea, Robert & Robert Anton Wilson. Illuminatus, Vol. III: Leviathan. New York: Dell (1975); pg. 23. | "...the thirty-thousand-year-old Illuminati center on the peaks of the Tibetan Himalayas, with a lower-level water front harbor on the vast underground Sea of Valusia. " |
| Tibetan | world | 1998 | Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World. New York: Simon & Schuster (2000; c. 1998); pg. 55. | "...Madame Blavatsky... and her various spirit guides, the Great White Brotherhood of Masters. It was these higher beings--Serapis and Tuitit Behy, the Tibetan prince Master Morya... who dictated her books to her, or simply 'precipitated' the completed manuscripts on her desk while she slept... " |
| Tibetan | world | 2050 | Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age. New York: Bantam (1995); pg. 447. | "...strolled through encamptments of Ashantis, Kurds, Armenians, Navajos, Tibetans, Senderos, Mormons, Jesuits, Lapps, Pathans, Tutsis... " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Asia - East | 1968 | Bishop, Michael. The Secret Ascension; or, Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas. New York: Tor (1987); pg. 116. | "...'68... Thomas Merton... [had] been touring the Far East discussing monasticism and meditation with the Dalai Lama and other Buddhists. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | California | 1971 | Dick, Philip K. Valis. New York: Bantam (1981); pg. 39. | Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Tibetan Buddhism | California | 1974 | Dick, Philip K. Radio Free Albemuth. New York: Arbor House (1985); pg. 91. | "It reminded him of what I'd read in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo Thodol existence after death occurs. The soul moves along encountering different-colored lights; each color represents a different kind of womb, a different type of rebirth. It is the job of the departed soul to avoid all bad wombs and come at last to the clear white light. I decided not to tell Nicholas this; he was screwed-up enough already. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | California: San Francisco | 2036 | Besher, Alexander. Mir: A Novel of Virtual Reality. New York: Simon & Schuster (1998); pg. 110. | "'The moon rises and the moon sets'--he'd try that mantra for a while, before resorting to more industrial-strength potions. Maybe he'd give Dorje a call to see if the demons were in the mood to be pacified. The feisty Tibetan lama had come to Trevor's aid in the past, armed with his phurbu ritual-exorcism dagger and homemade yak soup, which he would prepare for Trevor in the Tenderloin apartment that he shared, with two other Tibetan lamas. " [More, pg. 110-111, 140, 210-211, etc.] |
| Tibetan Buddhism | California: San Francisco | 2036 | Besher, Alexander. Mir: A Novel of Virtual Reality. New York: Simon & Schuster (1998); pg. 166. | "'...How do you know what being dead is? You know what they say about the Tibetan Book of the Dead? For that matter, what they say about all those sacred texts, including the Egyptian Book of the Dead. They're guidebooks to the stages of the afterlife. But they're also pretty accurate about the different stages of this life, too. There's a double message there.' " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | galaxy | 2250 | Dick, Philip K. A Maze of Death. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1970); pg. 205. | "What did we make up? he asked himself blearily. The entire theology, he realized. They had fed into the ship's computer all the data they had in their possession concerning advanced religions. Into T.E.N.C.H. 889B had gone elaborate information dealing with Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Zoroastrianism, Tibetan Buddhism . . . a complex mass, out of which T.E.N.C.H. 889B was to distill a composite religion, a synthesis of every factor involved. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | India | 1967 | Chayefsky, Paddy. Altered States. New York: Harper & Row (1978); pg. 19. | "He had been interested in Buddhism and yoga lately, ever since he had been struck by the similarity in encephalographic patterns between his own tank states and those of yogis and Zen monks in meditation. He was in correspondence with two young Indian physiologists at the University of Calcutta, G. K. Mishan and B. S. Chhan, who were doing EEG work on yogis. They were going to a lamasery north of Delhi that summer to do more intensive studies, and they had asked Jessup to join them. It was a Tibetan lamasery which had moved down into India after the Chinese invasion, an unusual opportunity to study Northern Yoga. The prospect fascinated Jessup. He had decided to go... " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Italy | 2096 | Sterling, Bruce. Holy Fire. New York: Doubleday (1988); pg. 258. | "He was reading aloud from an Italiano translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and had reached page 212. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Japan | 1998 | Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World. New York: Simon & Schuster (2000; c. 1998); pg. 143. | "Aum's theology was a syncretistic mishmash of Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and its own special variety of Christian millennialism, in which Aum and Asahara would reign supreme after the Day of Judgment. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Louisiana | 1987 | Geary, Patricia. Strange Toys. New York: Bantam (1989; c. 1987); pg. 172. | "'I am Templa Una.' And I'm the Dali Lama. Or is it Llama? 'Where's Deane?' " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Louisiana | 1987 | Geary, Patricia. Strange Toys. New York: Bantam (1989; c. 1987); pg. 194. | "I am a mythological beast! I have seen the perfect clarity of Nothing, the Tibetan temple bell pinging out in the void--and survived! " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Louisiana | 1987 | Shepard, Lucius. Green Eyes. New York: Ace Books (1984); pg. 213. | "'I have a friend who's compiling a Tibetan dictionary,' she said. 'She's working in Nepal.' 'The Tibetan book of the Dead.' He stared at her with renewed intensity. 'Is she translating that?' 'I think it's already been done,' said Jocundra tactfully. 'Not correctly.' He turned away. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2101 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Green Mars. New York: Bantam (1994); pg. 246. | "Also the rhythmic breathing, the bounce of his air tank on his back, the trancelike state that he had learned over the years, with help from the issei Nanao, who had been taught lung-gom back on Earth by a Tibetan adept. " [More about lung-gom.] |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2128 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam Books (1996); pg. 92. | "How do you know? the little red people asked telepathically. Who are you? Are you the ghost of John Boone? I am the Gyatso Rimpoche, the voice answered. The eighteenth reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. I am traveling the Bardo in search of my next reincarnation. I've looked everywhere on earth, but I've had no luck, and I decided to look somewhere new. Tibet is still under the thumb of the Chinese, and they show no signs of letting up. The Chinese, although I love them dearly, are hard bastards. And the other governments of the world long ago turned their backs on Tibet. So no one will challenge the Chinese. Something needs to be done. So I came to Mars. Good idea, the little red people said. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2128 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam Books (1996); pg. 92. | "Yes, the Dalai Lama agreed, but I must admit I am having a hard time finding a new body to inhabit. For one thing there are few children anywhere. Then also it does not look like anyone is interested. I looked at Sheffield but everyone was too busy talking. I went to Sabishii but everyone there had their heads stuck in the dirt. I went to Elysium but everyone had assumed the lotus position and could not be roused. I went to Christianopolis but everyone there had other plans. I went to Hiranyagarba but everyone there said we've already done enough for Tibet. I've gone everywhere on Mars, to every tent and station, and everywhere people are just too busy. No one wants to be the nineteenth Dalai Lama. And the Bardo is getting colder and colder. Good luck, the little red people said. We've been looking ever since John died and we haven't even found anyone worth talking to, much less living inside. These big people are all messed up. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2128 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam Books (1996); pg. 92. | "The Dalai Lama was discouraged by this response. He was getting very tired, and could not last much longer in the Bardo. So he said, What about one of you? Well, sure, the little red people said. we'd be honored. Only it will have to be all of us at once. We do everything like that together. Why not? said the Dalai Lama, and he transmigrated into one of the little red specks, and that same instant he was there in all of them, all over Mars. The little red people looked up at the humans crashing around above them, a sight which before they had tended to regard as some kind of bad widescreen movie, and now they found they were filled with all the compssion and wisdom of the eighteen previous lives of the Dalai Lama. They said to each other, Ka wow, these people really are messed up. We thought it was bad before, but look at that, it's even worse than we thought. They're lucky they can't read each other's minds or they'd kill each other. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2128 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam Books (1996); pg. 93. | "Have you ever tried your telepathy on them? the Dalai Lama asked. Oh, no, they said. No way. Too scary. The ugliness might kill us on the spot. Or at leat make us real sick. Maybe not, the Dalai Lama said. Maybe if you blocked off your reception of what they thought, and just beamed your thoughts at them, it would be all right. Just send lots of good thoughts, like an advice beam. Compassion, love agreeableness, wisdom, even a little common sense. We'll give it a try, the little red people said. But we're all going to have to shout at the top of our telepathic voices, all in chorus, because these folks just aren't listening. I've faced that for nine centuries now, the Dalai Lama said. You get used to it. And you little ones have the advantage of numbers. So give it a try. And so all the little red people all over Mars looked up and took a deep breath. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Mars | 2128 | Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam Books (1996); pg. 92-93. | "They need your help, the Dalai Lama said inside them all. Maybe you can help them. Maybe, the little red people said. They were dubious, to tell the truth. They had been trying to help humans ever since John Boone died, they had set up whole towns in the porches of every ear on the planet, and talked continuously every since, sounding very much like John had... But now the little red people had the compassionate spirit of the Dalai Lama infusing them, and so they decided to try one more time. Perhaps it will take more than whispering in their ears, the Dalai Lama pointed out, and they all agreed. We'll have to get their attention some other way. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Massachusetts: Boston | 2015 | Goonan, Kathleen Ann. The Bones of Time. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 169. | "'...The Dali [sic] Lama lived near Boston the last three years before died and lots of Tibetans lived there. She was friends with all of them and spent a lot of time at the center...' " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | New York: New York City | 1999 | Hand, Elizabeth. Glimmering. New York: HarperCollins (1997); pg. 15. | "Nineteen ninety-eight was the year during which Jack was certain that The Gaudy Book, after a century, and more incarnations than the Dalia Lama, would finally expire. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | New York: New York City | 2000 | Silverberg, Robert. The Stochastic Man. New York: Harper & Row (1975); pg. 36. | "I wanted to rule. I wanted power. I wanted to be President, King, Emperor, Pope, Dalai Lama. " |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Oceania | 2020 | Maggin, Elliot S. Kingdom Come. New York: Time Warner (1998); pg. 120. | "This Green Arrow, the archer, the legendary urban warrior, was a man whose shadow passed through endless rumor and swashbuckle. I'd heard he was dead. I'd heard he lived on a South Pacific island with an old high school flame and a Tibetan guru. I'd heard he lost a limb, though he seemed intact. Maybe it was in the tabloids I'd read that he was on his way to Mars to found a colony... Evidently not. He was here. " |
