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Alakh Gong Rri Tsang, the woman Grand Buddha of Drukh Kurr Gomba
And now we should let the author speak for himself: „And as I watched her, my jaw dropped. I stared
as she began to disrobe. A shrug of the shoulders her and her long toga slipped to the floor. Then she
loosened the silken girdle at her waist and let drop the voluminous skirt-like garment. Her other
garments followed, one by one, until they formed a red pile at her feet. And I saw, what I am sure no
white man ever saw before me, or ever will see again, the nude body of Alakh Gong Rri Tsang, the
woman Grand Buddha of Drukh Kurr Gomba. Her body was amazingly voluptuous, and, I suppose,
beautiful. Her breasts stood like those of a schoolgirl, firm and round – like hemispheres of pure
alabaster. Her figure was magnificent and of sinuously generous proportions. I was minded of the
substantial nudes of Michelangelo and his school. And amid the ever-encircling bats she stood there –
still gazing ecstatically upward” (Forman, 1936, p. 183). If we examine the photo which Forman took
of the Abbess in the convent and in which she is not to be distinguished from a portly male Abbot,
one is indeed most amazed at just what is supposed to be hidden beneath the clothes of the Living