Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler (Buddhism and Modernity (CHUP)) (Buddhism and Modernity)

by Gendun Chopel

Thupten Jinpa (Translator), Donald S Lopez (Translator), and Donald S Lopez Jr (Translator)

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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. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after. Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer during...Read more
  • ISBN10 022609197X
  • ISBN13 9780226091976
  • Publish Date 17 January 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press