Madman's Middle Way Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel

Name: Madman's Middle Way Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
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ISBN: 9780226493176

ISBN-10: 0226493172

ISBN-13: 9780226493176

Edition: 2007

Authors: Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entry into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child, Gendun Chopel excelled in the traditional monastic curriculum and went on to become expert in fields as diverse as philosophy, history, linguistics, geography, and tantric Buddhism. Near the end of his life, before he was persecuted and imprisoned by the government of the young Dalai Lama, he would dictate theAdornment for Nagarjuna’s Thought, a work on Madhyamaka, or “Middle Way,” philosophy.nbsp; It…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Life



The Text



The Commentary



The Author



The Critics



The Question of Modernity


Index