Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the scholarly institutions of his time and wandered from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to Buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs. Wherever he went, crowds of people gathered to hear his ...
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Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the scholarly institutions of his time and wandered from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to Buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs. Wherever he went, crowds of people gathered to hear his sweet sounding voice "singing the Dharma." The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, says the book's translator, "has been read as the biography of a saint, a guide book for devotions, a manual of Buddhist yoga, a volume of songs and poems, and even a collection of Tibetan folklore, and fairy tales." With titles like "The Salvation of the Dead," "A Woman's Role in the Dharma," and "Challenge from a Wise Demoness," Milrepa's poems are filled with fascinating tales of miraculous encounters and colorful imagery, and present a valuable insight into the living quality of Tibetan Buddhism. Central as this book is to Tibetan culture, the arcane dialect and obscurity of many original passages daunted translators for centuries; this was the first complete version of the classic to appear in the West.
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Add this copy of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: the Life-Story to cart. $31.50, very good condition, Sold by The Haunted Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages except for faint finger marks on the foreedge of the page block; full cloth cover shows pale dust staining along head and heel edges and some softening at spine ends, otherwise well-kept. The dust jacket has a small coffee stain at the spine head, visible only from the interior of the jacket, several short creases at the bottom right rear, and a short, closed surface tear at the lower right front as well as some crimping and minor edge chipping at spine ends and corners, but remains overall clean and attractive, now protected in a clear sleeve. xvii, 730pp. incl. index.; 730 pp.
Add this copy of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Turn-The-Page Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skyway, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Shambhala.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Shambhala, 1999. 7th printing. Square and clean, with a couple small stray pen marks on page edges. xvii, 730pp. Lightly rubbed dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. --The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
Add this copy of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa to cart. $58.95, poor condition, Sold by By The Way Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Richmond, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Shambhala.
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Moisture damage to jacket and, very mildly, to covers and end papers; Jacket somewhat rippled, no other external sign of damage; Verso of jacket stained, cloth and end papers slightly stained; Contents very good. Translated and annotated by Garma C.C. Chang; xvii, 752 pages. Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the scholarly institutions of his time and wandered from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to Buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs. Wherever he went, crowds of people gathered to hear his sweet sounding voice "singing the Dharma."
