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A historical novel on the life and world of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683â 1706). Based on period sources and official biographies, his life unfolds in the form of a third-level Tibetan biography, a secret liberation story that reveals the meditative state and actions of a siddha, an accomplished master or saint.

Produktbeschreibung
A historical novel on the life and world of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683â 1706). Based on period sources and official biographies, his life unfolds in the form of a third-level Tibetan biography, a secret liberation story that reveals the meditative state and actions of a siddha, an accomplished master or saint.
Autorenporträt
Annie Bien has published two poetry collections, Plateau Migration, and Under Shadows of Stars, won a LISP flash fiction prize, and an A3 Press Pamphlet prize for Messages from Under a Pillow, which includes her own illustrations. She is an English translator from Tibetan into English at 84000. She teaches Tibetan Buddhist meditation and Qigong at Tibet House US. Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of Tibet House US, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. The New York Times recently hailed him as "the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism."