The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama

Informationen zum Autor Translated by Simon Wickham-Smith - By Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé Klappentext This is the first English translation of a Dalai Lama's biography, and is highly significant for the historical study of the Gaden Phodrang period, around the turn of the seventeenth century. It is not only a biography, but a historical narrative of a legendary character, and illustrates the nature and understanding of Tibetan hagiographical and mystical literature within a sociopolitical context. Zusammenfassung This is the first English translation of a Dalai Lama's biography! and is highly significant for the historical study of the Gaden Phodrang period! around the turn of the seventeenth century. It is not only a biography! but a historical narrative of a legendary character! and illustrates the nature and understanding of Tibetan hagiographical and mystical literature within a sociopolitical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Fugitive Lives of the Sixth Dalai Lama Chapter 3 Part I. His Birth, Ordination, and Enthronement Chapter 4 Part II. The Activity and Practice which He Carried out to Benefit All Chapter 5 Part III. His Journey to Domé and How He Taught Those Needing Instruction Chapter 6 Part IV. The Legacy He Left For His Students

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• Authors: Dargyand233, Ngawang Lhundrup Dargye, Ngawang Lhundrup/ Wickham-Smith Dargye, Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé, Lhun-Grub-Dar-R, Dar-Rgyas No-Mon-Ha Lhun-Grub-Dar-Rgyas, Simon Wickham-Smith, Wickham-Smith Simon
• Assisted by: Wickham-Smith Simon (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2011
• EAN: 9780739150535
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-5053-5
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture; Studies in Modern Tibetan Cult; Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture; Studies in Modern Tibetan Cult
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Leadership, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Religious & spiritual leaders, Biography: religious & spiritual, Religious and spiritual figures, Biography: religious and spiritual, Tibetan Buddhism