| Description |
1 online resource (xlix,117 p.) |
| Series |
Studies in modern Tibetan culture |
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Studies in modern Tibetan culture.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-112) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama VI, 1683-1706.
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Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama VI, 1683-1706. |
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Dalai lamas -- Biography
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Tibetan.
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Dalai lamas.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wickham-Smith, Simon
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Schaeffer, Kurtis R
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| LC no. |
2021697696 |
| ISBN |
9780739150559 |
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0739150553 |
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