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Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Schaeffer
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Description for Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
paperback. Translator(s): Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HREX; HRLP7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 to compose one of the most forthright and engaging spiritual autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition. Her life story is the oldest of only four Tibetan autobiographies authored by women. It is also a rare example of writing by a pre-modern Buddhist woman, and thus holds a unique place in Buddhist literature as a whole. Translator Kurtis Schaeffer prefaces the text with an illuminating study of ... Read more
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 to compose one of the most forthright and engaging spiritual autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition. Her life story is the oldest of only four Tibetan autobiographies authored by women. It is also a rare example of writing by a pre-modern Buddhist woman, and thus holds a unique place in Buddhist literature as a whole. Translator Kurtis Schaeffer prefaces the text with an illuminating study of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195152999
SKU
V9780195152999
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About Schaeffer
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Alabama.
Reviews for Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
A significant contribution toward filling the lacuna of research on female-authored Himalayan Buddhist sources.
Sarah H. Jacoby, The Journal of Asian Studies
Sarah H. Jacoby, The Journal of Asian Studies