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Lord of the dance : the autobiography of a Tibetan lama / Chagdud Tulku.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: enk Junction City, Calif. : Padma Pub., 1992Edition: Revised edition 2014Description: xx, 346 pages : ill., map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1881847004 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/923/092 B 20
LOC classification:
  • BQ946.A345 A3 1992
Summary: Lord of the Dance is Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's memoir of his life in Tibet, his escape from the Chinese Communist invasion, his years as a refugee in India and Nepal, and his return visit to his homeland twenty-eight years later. His stories of his childhood capture the last sunlit moments, the 1930s and '40s, when the full array of the Buddhist teachings, and particularly the Tibetan Vajrayana, could be practiced freely in a rich culture that revered its spiritual adepts. -From book cover
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Lord of the Dance is Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's memoir of his life in Tibet, his escape from the Chinese Communist invasion, his years as a refugee in India and Nepal, and his return visit to his homeland twenty-eight years later. His stories of his childhood capture the last sunlit moments, the 1930s and '40s, when the full array of the Buddhist teachings, and particularly the Tibetan Vajrayana, could be practiced freely in a rich culture that revered its spiritual adepts. -From book cover