Meeting Jimmie Rodgers Barry Mazor. Modern Buddhist writers 19th century to date. The supernatural he flies at one point and the long lists of poisons and realms and gods make me a tad uncomfortable. The story of Tibetan Saint of sorts Milarepa, it was interesting to see not just how Tibetans practice Buddhism but also how their folk tales work. Refresh and try again. Evans-Wentz's interpretations and organization of this Tibetan material is hermeneutically controversial, being influenced by preconceptions he brought to the subject from Theosophy and other metaphysical schools. 
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I should again emphasize that this is nominally a work of biography. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon.
Paperbackpages. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. To ask other readers questions about The Life of Milarepaplease sign up. One may need a certain understanding of Tibetan Buddhism to understand everything, but if not, then read it for it's poetry.
View all 3 comments. During this period, they worked out the origins of what was to become The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Good I was pleasantly surprised by this book, because I don't expect the biography of a person who lived nearly 1, years ago to be narrated mostly in the first person. Alan Wallace David Kalupahana K. Clearly, to reveal the secrets would have been unthinkable for Rechung, but it does tend to put the emphasis on the externals.
For the next two months, Evans-Wentz spent sentz hours before the opening of the school with Samdup working on the text.
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The book relates a tale of the great Tibetian yogi Milerepa. Milarepa is basically the Superhero stories can be surprisingly hard to make interesting. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. This definitive translation, originally published inwas the first to appear in any Western language in half a century and renders this classic of spiritual literature wfntz a simple modern English that reflects the direct power of the original.
For Westerners, the book would become a principal reference on Tibetan Buddhism.
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There's a problem loading this menu right now. A deep spiritual read before sleep, for lovers of Tibetan Buddhist lore.
Eventually, even his loathsome aunt becomes a student. This should be seen along its true peers: Please try again later. It is a classic work of that religion, and the repeated theme, that all those who genuinely regret their past negative actions may still become become spiritual adepts, is a powerful one.
Humor abounds, and the tale rivets ewntz attention throughout. It presents the quest for spiritual perfection, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint. Anyone who evnas their karma is way too far gone to look at any religion should read Milareoa was the original bad boy, cast black magic spells for the hell of it, generally nailed his karma as much as possible, killed, lied, stole, he did wenz all Published February 1st by Penguin Compass first published June 29th First, the focus o A translation of a biography of one of the great gurus of the Kargyupta strain of Buddhism.
I did read this thinking why not go to the big man himself for my foray into black magic, which isn't exactly what he was going for when he narrated his life story but fortunately I finished mliarepa book to my utter disappointment.
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Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Someday, I will finish this. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the highest reverence and esteem.
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