The Fleeting Windhorse: Tibetan Cultural Identity and the Challenge of Modernity
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Abstract
Can one speak about Tibet and modernity or globalization with any kind of credibility, may the incredulous reader ask? Is Tibet not this country [that] seemed not to belong to our earth, a society left on the shelf, set in amber, preserved in deep freeze, a land so close to the sky that the natural occupation of her people was to pray? With films such as Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun, Hollywood has presented the world with an image of Tibet that reinforces stereotypes of a land and people so other that they are seen as redeemers of a depraved modern world. Tibet, so the argument is made, has to be sheltered from the attacks of the modern world so that it can save a materialistic world from itself. Tibet and modernity are two antagonistic poles that need to be kept apart unless this fantastic image of the West's unmet desire for purity and spiritual wholeness will collapse. This romanticized image of Tibet has become thoroughly incorporated in the modern popular culture. Beside films, one may refer to the Free Tibet concerts, the Dalai Lamas as a pop group, fragments of Buddhist scriptures as lyrics of pop songs, or Tibetan mantras imprinted on t-shirts to be sold in a sports store. A new Tibet has been created in the media and in parts of modern scholarship: a people solely devoted to the pursuit of spiritual awareness and averse to all materialistic and worldly gains; a country united as a nation under
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".