Tag Archives: TIbetans

Mongolica: The Tangut empire

In the early 1100s of the CE Rtsa-mi lotsawa Sangs-rgyas grags-pa was in Nālandā, India, to study and transmit the latest that the tāntrika strain of Bauddha-mata had to offer. Within a century both his world and that of his … Continue reading

Posted in History | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Denisovans, Sherpas and Tibetans

Many years ago we discovered that EGLN1 and its orthologs were  iron and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that hydroxylated prolines. About 8 months after we had published a paper detailing this discovery a band of mlechCha-s led by an English robber-baron said essentially … Continue reading

Posted in Life, Scientific ramblings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment