The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat
The Life of Ra Lotsawa
$44.49
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2015
Summary
Now available for the first time in a complete English translation, the wondrous story of one of the most notorious figures in Tibetan Buddhism- the infamous sorcerer Ra Lotsawa
The story of Tibet’s notorious master of Buddhist sorcery-translated for the first time into English
An essential sacred text of Tibetan Buddhism, The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat tells the wondrous story of Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drak. Though he was canonized as a saint and a fully enlightened …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142422618 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0142422614 |
| Author: | Ra Yeshe Senge |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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There is no calculating the number of incorrigible people whom he vanquished, one and all, by killing, banishing, rendering, paralyzing and the like. All the lotsawas and learned scholars who turned the wheel of dharma had to resign before the mighty Ralo – Taranatha * The Wondrous Faith *
About The Author
Ra Yeshe Senge
RA YESH SENG was the eldest son of Ra Lotsawa’s nephew. He lived in Tibet’s western province of Tsang around the late twelfth or early thirteenth century and is traditionally renowned as the first patriarch of what came to be known as the “Western tradition” of Ra Lotsawa’s spiritual lineage.
BRYAN J. CUEVAS is the author of Travels in the Netherworld- Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet, among other works. He is John F. Priest Professor of Religion and Director of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at Florida State University.
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