TY - BOOK AU - Chagdud Tulku, TI - Lord of the dance: the autobiography of a Tibetan lama SN - 1881847004 : AV - BQ946.A345 A3 1992 U1 - 294.3/923/092B 20 PY - 1992/// CY - Junction City, Calif. PB - Padma Pub. KW - Chagdud Tulku, KW - Lamas KW - China KW - Tibet Autonomous Region KW - Biography KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - Vajrayana N2 - 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 ER -