From inner space to outer space in Sun Valley http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A162553 A June 2006 Boise Weekly article, timely with the Olympic protests occuring in Lhasa. BY TONY EVANS So what are those monks up to in the Himalayas that makes them so precious anyway? It can't be their music, which sounds like a Dixieland tuba after happy hour. It's probably not their singing either, which can sound like idling semis. Tibetan scholar Robert Thurman (father of actress Uma) spoke about Tibetan culture to a full house at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church in April to introduce the Sun Valley Center for the Arts' "Arts of Tibet" exhibition, which ran for three months this spring and just ended. He began by giving a nod to Jesus Christ on the cross behind him, "and to all of his altered states," he added, gesturing to the stations-of-the-cross carvings hanging around the sanctuary. You could have heard a pin dropping, even with a thou...