Historically, Tibet is and has been a buffer between four powerful Asian countries: Persia to the west, India to the south, Mongolia to the north and China to the east. Glen Mullin, a Tibetan scholar who is a friend of the Dalai Lama, says that the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists once described Tibet this way to him:
"We adopted our spiritual traditions from India, the mother of the greatest religions in the East; we took our culinary arts from China, the Eastern land with the best cooking; and we adopted the Mongolian style of dress as the Mongolians had the most colorful sense in clothing."
"We adopted our spiritual traditions from India, the mother of the greatest religions in the East; we took our culinary arts from China, the Eastern land with the best cooking; and we adopted the Mongolian style of dress as the Mongolians had the most colorful sense in clothing."
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