With a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama; xv, 270p., Figs., Gloss., 22 cm.
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DESCRIPTION
The book provides a general background of the subjects of Tibet. The tradition of Dalai Lama incarnations, and the cultural concepts of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought. It also presents a biographical account of the second Dalai Lama and facilities his songs and poems and a sensitivity of the language and structures that he uses. It is an attempt to project a sense of what Tibet was like for a lama of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and commentary to the songs and poems that comprise his namgur collection.
