Himalayan Hermitess The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

Name: Himalayan Hermitess The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
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ISBN: 9780195152999

ISBN-10: 0195152999

ISBN-13: 9780195152999

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Schaeffer

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Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. 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, defied tradition, and composed one of the most engaging autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition. The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the oldest known autobiography authored by a Tibetan woman, and thus holds a critical place in both Tibetan and Buddhist literature. In it she tells of the sufferings of her youth, the struggle to escape menial…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English