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The hidden life of the Sixth Dalai Lama [electronic resource] / Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé ; translated by Simon Wickham-Smith ; foreword by Kurtis R. Schaeffer.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Tibetan Series: Studies in modern Tibetan culturePublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739150559
  • 0739150553
Uniform titles:
  • Tshaṅs-dbyaṅs-rgya-mtshoʼi gsaṅ rnam. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hidden life of the Sixth Dalai Lama.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/923092 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ7935.T757 L4813 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. His birth, ordination and enthronement -- pt. 2. The activity and practice which he carried out to benefit all -- pt. 3. His journey to Domé and how he taught those needing instruction -- pt. 4. The legacy he left for his students.
Summary: The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a sober Buddhist practitioner, who chose to escape at Kokonor and to adopt the guise of a wandering monk, only appearing some years later, after many fantastical and mystical adventures, in what is today Inner Mongolia, where he oversaw monasteries and lived as a Buddhist teacher. The Hidden Life was wri.
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The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a sober Buddhist practitioner, who chose to escape at Kokonor and to adopt the guise of a wandering monk, only appearing some years later, after many fantastical and mystical adventures, in what is today Inner Mongolia, where he oversaw monasteries and lived as a Buddhist teacher. The Hidden Life was wri.

pt. 1. His birth, ordination and enthronement -- pt. 2. The activity and practice which he carried out to benefit all -- pt. 3. His journey to Domé and how he taught those needing instruction -- pt. 4. The legacy he left for his students.

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