Crossword-Solution: RINGDING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Nobody had ever heard of him, and I’ve never met a man who saw him; but I’m told he’s a Ringding Gelong Lama; and I’ve also heard that _Ommony_ has never seen him.

The talk, for the hour while dinner lasted, was of anything in the world but Ringding Lamas and the Ahbor country.

God knows they will tear him between wild asses for debauching his religion, when he gets back to Tibet! Believe me or not, Benjamin—although I _hope_ my word rings unsuspicious in your ears—he leans toward modern views! Can you imagine that—in a Ringding Lama from Tibet? He proposes just what I have always preached—to moderate the ancient plays, retaining their charm and morality, but making them comprehensible! The man is mad—mad as an American—but genuinely gifted with imagination.

There, on a mat on the floor, sat no other than the Ringding Gelong Lama, Tsiang Samdup, with his _chela_ Samding beside him.

There were one or two I had my eye on, but the crafty old Ringding looks after them more carefully than an Afghan watches a harem.