The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: Vol. 1 - Pre-loved
Translated and annotated by Garma C. C. Chang
📖 Format: Softcover
📄 Page Count: 356
📏 Dimensions: Approx. 23cm x 15.5cm x 2cm ⚖️ Weight: Approx. 600g
Publisher: Shambhala
Gently pre-loved, this book remains in good condition and is ready to inspire its next reader.
Back Cover:
The songs of Milarepa, the famous eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet and hermit-saint, are metaphors of love, beauty, and profound spiritual insight. One of the most popular classics of Tibetan literature, these songs speak with a powerful immediacy to the spiritual concerns of men and women today, and this excellent translation is the most widely read. The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa has been read in the original by all of the great teachers of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and it remains a deeply beloved source of spiritual guidance and inspiration.
Milarepa has been likened to the biblical Job as a man of sorrow, a man of trials and victories, a man of humble origins who triumphed over great adversities. The power of Milarepa lies not in his teachings or his spiritual attainment alone. He is a figure of such vivid human presence, of such inspiring courage and perseverance, that he transcends boundaries of sect and doctrine, race and nation, and speaks to all who seek a better life, a deeper truth, and the awakening of the soul.
The translator, Garma C. C. Chang, received traditional training in Tibet and translated Buddhist texts at several universities over the course of his career.
Cover art: Jatson Milarepa, Courtesy of the Dzogchen Monastery, Shambhala
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This pre-loved copy carries wisdom and blessings, ready to find a new home with a reader who seeks inspiration and spiritual enrichment.
