“Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness or this-worldliness, by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh.”

“In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation.”

“If Westerners expect Tibetans to be steeped in mysticism and otherworldliness, the Dorjee-Norbu team wreck the mold.”