The Turquoise Bee: The Lovesongs of the Sixth Dalai Lama
by Dalai Lama VI, Brian Cutillo (Translator), Rick Fields (Translator)
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Tsangyang Gyatso was Tibet's Sixth Dalai Lama. He was also a controversial and celebrated poet, whose love songs scandalized the establishment of eighteenth-century Tibet. Today, however, he is renowned as one of Tibet's greatest poets, as well as a highly respected spiritual leader. His enigmatic and hauntingly beautiful poems include frank and erotic lyrics, satiric verses attacking the worldly and spiritual pretensions of Tibetan society, and mystical Tantric songs that transcend the show more conventional distinctions between the secular and the spiritual. At the same time, the songs also provide a fascinating record of a most unusual life - dramatic, tragic, and deeply moving. show lessTags
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- 895.41 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Tibetan and other Himalayan languages Tibetan poetry
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