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Indlæser... The Search for the Panchen Lama (udgave 2001)af Isabel Hilton
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In May 1995, a seven-year-old Tibetan boy was taken from his home with his parents and younger brother by Chinese security services. Neither the boy nor his family has been seen since. His devotees believe him to be the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second most important in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy. In this text, Isabel Hilton tells the inside story of how this boy became the innocent prize in a battle between the Chinese regime and Tibet's exiled religious leader, the Dalai Lama. Travelling to many inaccessible locations, she uncovers the high politics and intrigue that accompanied the race to find the child and enthrone him as Tibet's future leader. She also explores the history of Tibet's high lamas and illuminates the unique role religion has played in shaping Tibetan culture. No library descriptions found. |
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Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Karen Witzler
Read from May 11 to 28, 2014
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Withdrawn from Huntingdon Library.
Opening: Choekyi Gyaltsen, more widely known as the tenth reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, died on a freezing night in January 1989 in his own monastery of Tashilhunpo, in Tibet.
Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse, Tibet
Page 18: 'The Potala was built by the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, the first of the Gelugpa hierarchs to assume secular power. His accession as King of Tibet in the seventeenth century had brought a measure of peace to a country riven for more than a hundred years by sectarian warfare.'
Firstly a thank you to Karen for for bringing this book to my attention.
This lengthy history is very interesting, however it is written in a non-linear way, making it hard to keep the facts straight. I especially enjoy that Ms Hilton recognises this growing Western trend of Dr. Martin wearing maroon-cloaked accolytes hanging on the robes of the court in exile. Example on Page 6: 'The hotel* is the chief exhibition room for what the Dalai Lama's brother, Tenzin Choegyal, later called the Shangri-La Syndrome - Westerners who are seeking answers to a variety of personal questions by means of the Tibetan Cause.'
*Hotel Tibet, Dharamsala
Overall though, this is not a book I would recommend other than to those with more than a passing interest, as the lay-out of information is too haphazard. One thing I did learn, and it is an important point, the young lad I spied overhead at Yonghegong must have been Gyaincain Norbu. So for that learning point alone this book has been useful.
TRIVIA
Bon or Bön also Bonism or Benism (Chinese: 苯教, Běnjiào) is the term for the religious tradition or sect of Tibet more accurately called Yungdrung Bon today.
Zezhol Monastery of the Tibetan Bon Religion at Dengqen County of Qamdo prefecture
The Tibetan Book of Proportions (