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  • Stomach ulcers amongst Tibetan monks
    Coincidentally this article is from the ABC and refers to people in Sydney! http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2010/s2915471.htm Not astounding, but interesting all the same. […]
  • Slow activity
    Yes, things have been very slow here. I’ve been preparing to move across the world again, and the move is now due to happen in the next few days. I should resurface in the “land of the moon”, Lunigiana, the northern tip of Tuscany, in one or two weeks time, and I hope that things will […]
  • Is Buddhism changing, and is that a corruption?
    Recently I was asked: Do you think that Tibetan Buddhism (and Buddhism) have been corrupted by Western influences? It seems like most Westerners interpret, or want to interpret, Buddhism as a religion with a much more social-activist and political bent. This is probably partly because most Westerners are pretty ignorant of Buddhism. However, as Westerner [.. […]
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    Tony Blair from top to bottom […]
  • Karmapa’s visit to Europe
    This news is well-known now, but I wanted to add my enthusiasm: http://www.karmapa-in-europe.net/ […]
  • Apple connives with the PRC government
    Dalai Lama purged from Apple apps in China […]
  • “Faith Traditions”- what?
    "Faith tradition" emasculates spirituality […]
  • Why am I not excited?
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in Sydney […]
Friday September 4th, 2009. Posted by Alex:

Who am I?

This is the college matriculation photo from 1967, recently made available by the website people there. All of the freshers (1st years) at the House (Christ Church), lined up in Peck on the morning of matriculation, which is a kind of “induction” into membership of Oxford University. I am there, along with friends Bob Shatwell and Martin Jones (I recognize them) and doubtless others I can’t recognize  – which one is Andrew James, for instance? Oh yes, acquaintance “Budgie” Jodhpur, relatively easy to spot. But where are Herbert Gray and Whatsisname Harris?

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Submit your guesses in comments! (Oh, I had to change the setting for comments so that I have to approve them before they appear, as I was getting anything from a handful to a score of spam comments every day, but I will of course approve anything that is even 1/4-way reasonable.) You might need to click-to-enlarge to get the necessary detail.

I asked the same question about a different picture on Dang Zang, but that one is relatively easy.

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