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Himalayan Hermitess
The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Langbeschreibung
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 to compose one of the most forthright and engaging spiritual autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition. Her life story is the oldest of only four Tibetan autobiographies authored by women. It is also a rare example of writing by a pre-modern Buddhist woman, and thus holds a unique place in Buddhist literature as a whole. Translator Kurtis Schaeffer prefaces the text with an illuminating study of the life and times of Orgyan Chokyi and an extended analysis of the hermitess's view of the relation between gender, suffering, and liberation.
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Alabama.
ISBN-13:
9780195152999
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.07.2004
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Kurtis R Schaeffer
Gewicht:
343 g
Format:
235x156x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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