Love Letters From Golok - A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet

Klappentext Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters! Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944-2011)! and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic dimensions of their courtship and its consummation. Zusammenfassung Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic dimensions of their courtship and its consummation.

Product details

• Authors: Holly Gayley, Gayley Holly
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231180528
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18052-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Biography: general, Diaries, letters & journals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Buddhism, History of Religion, Asian History, Diaries, letters and journals, Tibetan Buddhism, Khandro Tare Lhamo; Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok