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"According to Tibetan folklore, people in the Buddhist culture began sticking out their tongue to disassociate themselves from the 9th century Tibetan king Lang Darma, who was infamous for his cruelty and was said to have had a black tongue.

As Buddhists believe in reincarnation after death, the tradition is said to have emerged as a way for people to show they were not the king reincarnated and therefore not to be associated with his evil deeds.

However, there is no mention in either this folklore or the broader traditional greeting of sucking the tongue."

Dalai Lama: The significance of ‘tongue greetings’ in Tibetan culture

No ‘sucking’ involved in Tibetan tradition of sticking out tongue in greeting

www.independent.co.uk

 

[pete]

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[pete]

Original source, I think.

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[ernesto]

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i mean, it would be really strange to take up kiddie fiddling at such a late stage in life, in public

 

[nuke terrorist]

Tibetan Buddhism has long been my least favourite religion.
His Holiness can fuck off.

The Chinese government deserve credit for trying to free Tibet.

 

[Unicron]

George Berkely of the library in Trinners (and also the town an university in California fame)

Trinity College Dublin to ‘dename’ Berkeley library due to philosopher’s link to slavery

Renowned philosopher and former bishop George Berkeley bought and sold slaves in the United States

www.irishtimes.com

Have no issue with this, you can acknowledge the importance and significance of someone and their work but if they were a total shit you don't need to take a hagiographic approach to it.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

George Berkely of the library in Trinners (and also the town an university in California fame)

Trinity College Dublin to ‘dename’ Berkeley library due to philosopher’s link to slavery

Renowned philosopher and former bishop George Berkeley bought and sold slaves in the United States

www.irishtimes.com

Have no issue with this, you can acknowledge the importance and significance of someone and their work but if they were a total shit you don't need to take a hagiographic approach to it.

Now is the time for the Bram Stoker library

 

[Deadmanposting]

Frederick Douglass Library ftw

 

[therealjohnny]

"The Library of the enslaved Irish, because that was a thing too you know"

 

[egg_]

Library number 1, or the Daffodil Library or something, because naming stuff after people is bullshit. People are just people. No gods, no heroes.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Jack Charlton Bibliotheque

 

[Space]

The library of books and stuff

 

[shitepipe]

Jack Charlton Bibliotheque

Fish murderer

 

[Deadmanposting]

The @Jill Hives Peanut Butter Research Institute

 

[taubstumm]

Library number 1, or the Daffodil Library or something, because naming stuff after people is bullshit. People are just people. No gods, no heroes.

apparently mao decided that the soviets naming cities after people was the height of cringe, so he decreed that nowhere in china would ever be named after a person, and they’ve basically stuck to that ever since.

 

[rettucs]

The @Jill Hives Peanut Butter Research Institute

IT WASN"T FUCKIN ME

 

[nuke terrorist]

Fish murderer

unfortunately so are most folks so Big Jack gets a pass on that.

 

[hydromancer]

I'm not sure calling say european colonial history in general shit and then simply trying to remove any historic trace of it as if it never happened is the correct approach. The issue is much larger than one person of course but this stuff needs to be fleshed out and understood in historical context as well as how it effects the present day.

 

[magicbastarder]

when you say 'remove any historic trace of it', i don't think renaming a library is doing that; if that's what you're referring to?

 

[Unicron]

I'm not sure calling say european colonial history in general shit and then simply trying to remove any historic trace of it as if it never happened is the correct approach. The issue is much larger than one person of course but this stuff needs to be fleshed out and understood in historical context as well as how it effects the present day.

There's a stainglass or some other portrait of him in the library which they intend to retain and add contextualising information.