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The hundred thousand songs : selections from Milarepa, poet-saint of Tibet / translated from the Tibetan by Antoinette K. Gordon ; with an introduction by Peter Fingesten.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123--Translations into English.
- Mi-la-ras-pa.
- Tibetan poetry--Translations into English.
- Tibetan poetry.
- Buddhist poetry--Translations into English.
- Buddhist poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Rutland, Vermont ; Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of Tibetan poetry and lyrics is accompanied by extensive commentary and offers a great insight into a rich literary culture. Tibet, remote and inaccessible, is less known to the western world for its literary than its artistic contributions to world culture. Nevertheless, it has produced a literature of enduring beauty and significance, the supreme achievement of which is the poetry of Milarepa, its greatest poet and saint. This Tibetan poetry book indicates in its poetic exaggeration that, to the Tibetans, his poetry contains all earthly and celestial wisdom. It is from this masterpiece that the selections for the present volume have been made--songs in which Milarepa describes his life in the solitude of mountain glaciers, his yogic attainments in self-discipline, his encounters with demons who try to obstruct his meditations, and his arrival at enlightenment and spiritual freedom. Presented here in skillful translation--in a volume decorated with original Tibetan woodcuts and motifs from Tibetan art--these poems shiningly reflect the genius of Tibet's "Old Man, Storehouse of Songs.".
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Dwelling on Byan-cub-rdzon; The Twelve Meanings; The Stallion; The Four Parables-Milarepa and His Woman Disciple; Song of the Three Teachings; The Six Regions of Transformation; APPENDIX; An Example of the Translation Process; Two Songs in Musical Transcription; NOTES; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4629-1318-0
- OCLC:
- 881567507
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