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has gloss | eng: Crazy Shagdar (, 1869-1930s) was a wandering lama from the Baarin banner (in what is now Ulanhad city) in Inner Mongolia. He is the hero of a number of, usually quite critical, tales, in which he mocks corrupt nobles, other lamas etc. One tale deals with how he rebuked Chinese traders on a temple fair: The annual Baarin temple fair had always attracted many traders from Inner China. Shagdar came very close to the side of the tent of one of these traders, made a fireplace from three stones, pulled a Tibetan cooking pot from his bundle, then he helped himself to the water from the traders' clay ton and made a fire from their wood. When the eldest of the traders scolded him and called him crazy, Shagdar replied |
lexicalization | eng: "Crazy" Shagdar |
lexicalization | eng: Crazy Shagdar |
instance of | (noun) a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism lama |
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