Gendün Chöphel

While condemning places and events like the Black Hole of Calcutta and the Goa Inquisition, he praised certain British colonial practices of legislations.

[4] His erotic classic, Treatise on Passion[5] (Tibetan: འདོད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།, Wylie: ‘dod pa’i bstan bcos), was completed in 1939, though it was first published posthumously in 1967.

[6] Written in Tibetan verse, this poetic and practical work was inspired both by his reading and partial translation of the Kama Sutra (introduced to him by Sankrityayan) and by his own recent, and prolific,[5] sexual awakening.

[6] The work aims to provide extensive[7] guidance on heterosexual lovemaking and sexual happiness for both women and men in an overtly democratic spirit.

[6] By now an ex-monk, Chöphel was happy to compare favourably his detailed sexual guidance (written from a lay perspective) to that contained in an earlier – and much less explicit – work bearing a similar title composed by Mipham the Great.