Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint

"In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama wandered like a beggar across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters and living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this ragged beggar-yogi became a revered teacher of the current Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At his death in 1977, he wa...

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Main Author: Pitkin, Annabella (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Buddhism and modernity
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lama (Lamaism) / Dge-lugs-pa
B Bstan-vdzin-rgyal-mtshan 1894-1977
Further subjects:B Buddhism (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region) Biography
B Khunu Lama Rinpoche (1895-1977)
B Biography 1895-1977
B Buddhist saints Biography
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 978-0-226-81691-3