Grains of Gold : Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler /

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chopel, Gendun (Autor)
Otros Autores: Jinpa, Thupten (Contribuidor), Jr., Donald S. Lopez (Contribuidor), Lopez Jr., Donald S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Colección:Buddhism and Modernity
Temas:
Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
HISTORY / General.
travelogue, exoticism, india, sri lanka, tibet, dalai lama, treason, political prisoner, modernity, british colony, colonialism, south asia, history, ethnography, drawings, illustrations, maps, 20th century, sacred sites, buddhism, sanskrit, classics, pilgrimage, folklore, legend, china, lhasa, dharma king asoka, gupta, dynasty, pala, singhala, linguistics, tibetan language, tirthikas, religion, spirituality, customs, native plants, mount girnar, snow mountains, nonfiction.
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