From the Heart of Tibet: The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age

From the Heart of Tibet: The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age

From the Heart of Tibet: The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age

From the Heart of Tibet: The Biography of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the Drikung Kagyu Line age

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Overview

"The story of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche’s life," notes the Dalai Lama, "encompasses a remarkably broad range of Tibetan experience over the past fifty years." This is the story of a young boy, born in 1946 to inherit the role of high-ranking lama. When the Chinese army invaded, his family escaped the country, but he and the other monks in his monastery were rounded up by soldiers and sent to an indoctrination school.

After surviving almost two decades of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, during which time lamas and aristocrats were persecuted and jailed, Chetsang Rinpoche walked out of Tibet alone and found his way to Kathmandu, Nepal. Eventually, after living as a refugee and an immigrant, he fully took on leadership of the Drikung lineage by founding the Drikung Kagyu Institute in India. Since then the teachings of this lineage have spread around the world after nearly being lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834822290
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 08/10/2010
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Elmar R. Gruber, PhD, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1955. He is a psychologist, an independent scholar and freelance popular-science writer, as well as a scientific advisor for radio and television in Europe. He is the author of twenty books that have been published in fifteen languages throughout the world. A longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, he is a student of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche.

Table of Contents

Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama vii

Foreword by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa ix

Foreword by His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche xi

Prologue 1

1 In Search of the Precious Jewel 5

2 Family and Childhood in Lhasa 13

3 On the Throne in Drikung: The Brilliance of a World in Decline 25

4 Tutors and Storytellers: Early Years in the Monastery 46

5 Inside the Mandala 61

6 Tibet at the Abyss: Rebellion and Oppression 77

7 In the Grip of the Chinese: Humiliation and Indoctrination 88

8 School Years under the Red Banner 99

9 Theater of Cruelty: The Cultural Revolution in Lhasa 117

10 The Death of Sanity: Red Guards, Rebels, and Reactionaries 129

11 On the Run, Alone 151

12 The Burden of Freedom 164

13 Spiritual Genealogy: The Throne Holders of Drikung 183

14 A Noble Being's Promise 200

15 Absorption and Withdrawal: Dreams, Studies, and Retreats 210

16 Concentration and Development: Realizing the Visions 226

17 Master of Dependent Arising 243

18 The Music of Awakening 273

Acknowledgments 283

Appendix: The Throne Holders of the Drikung Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism 287

Notes 291

Bibliography 303

Photography Credits 309

Index of Names and Places 311

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