Himalayan Hermitess
The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life story, Orgyan Chokyi received divine inspiration, defied tradition, and composed one of the most engaging autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition.The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the oldest known autobiography authored by a Tibetan woman, and thus holds a critical place in both Tibetan and Buddhist literature. In it she tells of the suffering…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-803491-9
- EAN: 9780198034919
- Produktnummer: 29354421
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'133 KB
Über den Autor
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Alabama.
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