Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 519 g
A Biography from the Tibetan Being the Jetsun-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsun-Milarepa, According to the Late
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 519 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-513313-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Amid his detailed introductory and explanatory notes for this text, Evans-Wentz also reveals compelling similarities between the life and thought of Milarepa and those of Jesus, Gandhi, and "saints.in ancient China, or India, or Babylonia, or Egypt, or Rome, or in our own epoch." In composing this translation from the original Tibetan, the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, who was Evans-Wentz's guru for many years, aimed to show Western readers "one of our great teachers as he actually lived.much of which is couched in the words of his own mouth, and the remainder in the words of his disciple Rechung, who knew him in the flesh." For this third edition, Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, has written a critical foreword that updates and contextualizes this crucial part of Evans-Wentz's scholarship within the yoga tradition.
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