Beggar Lama - The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap

The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Note on the Maps
Introduction
Act I: Childhood (1930–1941)
1. Birth and Recognition
2. Special Education
3. Just a Kid
Act II: The Lhasa Trip and Monastic Life (1941–1948)
4. On the Road
5. Life at Drepung
6. On Freedom
Act III: Heaven and Hell in the New China (1949–1976)
7. Reshuffling Powers
8. New Society, New Life
9. The Calm Before the Storm
10. The Democratic Reform
11. Riding the Revolutionary Tides
Act IV: An Intellectual Life (1966/1977–)
12. From Cowshed to College
13. The Closing Age of Giants
14. The Last Breath
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Tenzin Jinba teaches anthropology and sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border (2013).

Summary

The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Jinba Tenzin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231209342
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20934-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; China, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, General and world history, Tibetan Buddhism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American, history; biography & autobiography; China