Mishan's garden / James Vollbracht ; illustrated by Janet Brooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vollbracht, James R., 1950- author.

Contributor:

Brooke, Janet, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Fiction.

Conduct of life.

Gardens--Fiction.

Gardens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Place of Publication:

Somerville, Massachusetts : Wisdom Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a village high above the clouds, where nobody's happy and nothing grows, a little girl dreams of a garden flourishing behind her father's house. Every day the cynical villagers watch and mock the little girl. But, watered with her kindness and patience, the garden eventually yields the most important fruit: the restored hope and happiness of the entire village. Perhaps the greatest gift you can ever give another is to hold them in the highest regard and to see what is best and unique about them. In Mishan's Garden, a little girl sees all that is good and beautiful in the hearts

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Maps; Introduction: Geographical, Social, and Cultural Background of the Sherpa People; 1. Reincarnation and the Tradition of Reincarnate Lamas (Tulkus); On Past and Future Lives; Tulkus; 2. The Sacred, Hidden Khumbu Valley; The Four Gates of the Khumbu Snow Wall; Sherpa Land; Yeti Country; 3. The People of Khumbu: Their History and Culture; The Opening of Khumbu; Who Are the Sherpas?; Lama Sangwa Dorje and His Brothers; Economic Development

Cultural and Religious Development4. The Religion of the Sherpas; Tibetan Buddhism; The Cult of the Worldly Gods and Goddesses; The Five Sisters of Long Life; The "Country Gods": Khumbilha and His Retinue; Other Worldly Beings; Rituals; Part One: The Life Story of the First Lawudo Lama, Kunzang Yeshe; 5. Who Was Kunzang Yeshe?; How Kunzang Yeshe Began His Spiritual Journey; Kunzang Yeshe Goes into Retreat; 6. Kunzang Yeshe Learns to Combine Religious Practice and Worldly Matters; A Trading Journey; Nyungne; The Rainy Season; 7. Kunzang Yeshe's Teachers

The Kochag Drogonpa and the Dumche FestivalThe Thangme Lama Ngawang Trinle Lhundrub; The Dzamtra Lama Kunzang Trinle Gyatso; Other Sherpa Lamas; Kunzang Yeshe Meets His Tsawe Lama; Pema Kunzang Gyatso; Trulzhig Kunzang Thongdrol; Togden Shakya Shri; On Pilgrimage with Artsa Lama; 8. Kunzang Yeshe's Hermitage; The Thangme Gompa Retreat House; The Kusho Tulku; Kunzang Yeshe Finds the Lawudo Cave; 9. The Consecration of Tengboche Monastery; Dzatul Ngawang Tenzin Norbu and Rongphu Monastery; 10. Life in Khumbu; Life at Lawudo; How the Lawudo Lama Kunzang Yeshe Completed His Dharma Practice

The Dharma Flourishes among the Sherpas11. Lessons in Impermanence; 12. The Last Years of the Lawudo Lama; The Lawudo Lama Meets Ngawang Chöphel; 13. How the Lawudo Lama Kunzang Yeshe Dissolved the Illusory Appearance of His Form Body into the Expanse of Reality; Part Two: The Reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche; 14. Continuity; 15. My Family and Early Childhood; My Father's Death; Hardships; 16. I Am the Lawudo Lama; Recognition; Education at Thangme Gompa; 17. Rolwaling; The Tashi Labtsa; The Rolwaling Valley; Reading and Memorizing; A Naughty Lama; Meeting Westerners

18. TibetThe Journey; Tashi Lhunpo Monastery; Phag-ri; 19. I Become a Gelug Monk; I Am Not Going Back; Dungkar Monastery; Escape; 20. Life in India; The Buxa Duar Lama Ashram; Studies; Darjeeling; 21. The Young Lamas Home School; Dalhousie; 22. Lama Thubten Yeshe; Zina Rachevsky; 23. Return to Nepal; Serkong Dorje Chang; Max Mathews; Meeting My Brother; Meeting My Mother, Sister, and Uncles; Meeting Ngawang Chöphel, Karma Tenzin, and Other Sherpas; 24. Back in Khumbu; The Trek; Thangme Again; Lawudo; The Khari Lama and Tramo Gompa; Saka Dawa; Rebuilding and Looking for Benefactors

25. Building Lawudo Gompa

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61429-134-9

OCLC:

863821711