Born into a farming family in the eastern Tibetan province of Kham, the author fled with his older brother following the Chinese invasion in 1959. He has spent many years in the UK and the US, not all of them saintly, and is now the greatly respected abbot of Samye Ling monastery in Scotland.
From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey
(author)
£14.99
Edition:Hardback978024143927227/08/2020
Categories: 02. Summer Books 2020: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Philosophy & Religion, Summer Books 2020
Tags: Autobiography: religious and spiritual, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Memoir, Memoirs, Popular psychology, Scotland, Spiritualism, Spirituality and religious experience, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, United States of America, USA
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