№ 01 Tibet
A King Only at Home
རྒྱལ་པོ་རང་གི་ཡུལ་ན་བཀུར། ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཀུར།
rgyal po rang gi yul na bkur / yon tan ldan pa kun tu bkur
Why a Tibetan proverb says a king is honoured only at home while a person of real quality is honoured everywhere — and how Mandarin, English, and Latin sayings split over where a reputation actually lives.