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André Migot
André Migot (1892–1967) was a French doctor, traveller and writer.
He served as an army medical officer in World War I, winning the Croix de Guerre. After the war he engaged in research in marine biology, and then practised as a doctor in France, in his spare time climbing in the Alps and Pyrenees. In 1938 he set off to India by bicycle to pursue his interest in Oriental religions. During World War II he worked as a doctor in occupied Paris.
After the
. While traditional tsampa is prepared with tea, sometimes water or beer is used in its place. It may also be prepared as a porridge. André Migot described its preparation:
Cultural significance.
Besides constituting a substantial, arguably predominant part of the Tibetan diet, its prominence also derives from the tradition of throwing pinches of "tsampa" in the air during many Buddhist rituals. It is believed that "tsampa"-throwing actually predates Buddhist beliefs in the area and was originally used as an offering to animistic gods to request their