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A Cambridge, MA professor was among the first people allowed into Tibet in 1979. For decades, the Chinese occupiers of that Himalayan kingdom had prevented contact of any kind with the outside world. They enforced the ban with an often lethal hand to ensure that no foreign disease infected tho locals.

The professor visited the enormous Potala Lamasery in the Capital city of Lhasa and was delighted to encounter an aging monk who still remembed his schoolboy English, although it had been more than 30 years since he had found a use for it. He wagged a finger at the professor, bidding him to follow. Led through underground catacombs, into the side of a mountain, down dripping corridors, the professor finally entered a room carved out of sheer rock. A single electrical outlet had a lightbulb plugged into it as well as an obsolete 8 track tape deck. In it, playing over and over, was a Lebanese bootleg tape of
Bob Marley's "Natty Dread."