Among the generation of elder Tibetan lamas who brought Tibetan Buddhism west in the latter half of the twentieth century, perhaps none has had a greater impact on the academic study of Buddhism than Geshe Lhundub Sopa. He has striven to preserve Tibetan religious culture through tireless work as a professor and religious figure, establishing a functioning Buddhist monastery in the West, organizing the Dalai Lama’s visits to the U.S., and offering countless teachings across the country. But prior to his thirty-year career in the first ever academic Buddhist studies program in the United States – a position in which he oversaw the training of many among the seminal generation of American Buddhist studies scholars – Geshe Sopa was the son of peasant farmers, a novice monk in a rural monastery, a virtuoso scholar-monk at one of the prestigious central monasteries in Lhasa, and a survivor of the Tibetan uprising and perilous flight into exile in 1959.
In Like a Waking Dream, Geshe Sopa frankly and observantly reflects on how his life in Tibet – a monastic life of yogic simplicity – shaped and prepared him for the unexpected. His is a tale of an exemplary life dedicated to learning, spiritual cultivation, and the service of others from one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhism.
ISBN: 9780861713134
Binding: HARDBACK COVERS
Author: Sopa, Lhundub; Donnelly, Paul (Editor); Dalai Lama (Foreword by)
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Page Count: 368
Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.3 in
Weight: 1.55 lb
Category: Religion/Inspirational, BIOGRAPHY
Minimum Order: 3
