Grains of Gold
"Gendun Chopel's Grains of Gold is the magnum opus of arguably the single most brilliant Tibetan scholar of the twentieth century, and the team of Donald S. Lopez Jr. and renowned translator Thupten Jinpa is the ideal combination of talents to expertly render its eclectic contents into faithful but accessible English. This excellent translation will be enthusiastically (and gratefully) welcomed by both scholars and general readers." -Lauran Hartley, Columbia University"
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. Les mer
Gendun Chopel describes the world he discovered in South Asia, from the ruins of the sacred sites of Buddhism to the Sanskrit classics he learned to read in the original. He is also sharply, often humorously critical of the Tibetan love of the fantastic, bursting one myth after another and finding fault with the accounts of earlier Tibetan pilgrims. Exploring a wide range of cultures and religions central to the history of the region, Gendun Chopel is eager to describe to his Buddhist audience in Tibet all the new knowledge he gathered in his travels. At once the account of the experiences of a tragic figure in Tibetan history and the work of an extraordinary scholar, Grains of Gold is an accessible, compelling book animated by a sense of discovery of both a distant past and a strange present.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Chicago Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 456
- ISBN
- 9780226091976
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 2 x 2 cm
Anmeldelser
"Gendun Chopel's Grains of Gold is the magnum opus of arguably the single most brilliant Tibetan scholar of the twentieth century, and the team of Donald S. Lopez Jr. and renowned translator Thupten Jinpa is the ideal combination of talents to expertly render its eclectic contents into faithful but accessible English. This excellent translation will be enthusiastically (and gratefully) welcomed by both scholars and general readers." -Lauran Hartley, Columbia University"