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The participants are Tantric Lama, Skeptic Youth, Anglo-Saxon Historian, Techno Utopist, General Mankiller, and Bhutanese Peasant. They are on a hike in Bhutan along the exhausting Snowman Trek, a metaphor for searching a new path. It is a dialog about freedom, happiness, development, security, and economy between various characters that represent different points of view. The dialog grapples with the purposes and destinies of nations.
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A. Harrington and A. Zajonc, eds., The Dalai Lama at MIT (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 100–114, 135–137.
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Ura, K. (2014). Dialog on the Destinies of Nations. In: Colombano, J., Shah, A. (eds) Learning from the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137372130_20
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