Longing to Awaken

Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song

Holly Gayley, Dominique Townsend (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2024
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
9780813950686 (ISBN)

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Features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods. The anthology invites readers to experience a variety of poetic forms that embody a range of emotions, from grief and longing to skepticism and humour.

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs

Longing to Awaken features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods. The anthology invites readers to experience a variety of poetic forms that embody a range of emotions, from grief and longing to skepticism and humor, demonstrating the ways that poetry can inspire faith as well as reflect the profundity and at times fraught nature of the teacher-student relationship. This collection gives weight to literary—not simply literal—translation as a crucial endeavor in the transmission of Buddhism today, one with the potential to raise the profile of Tibetan poetry onto the stage of global literature.

Holly Gayley is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet. Dominique Townsend is Professor of Religion at Bard College and the author of A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s MindrÖling Monastery.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism
Einführung	Lama Jabb
Verlagsort	Charlottesville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-13	9780813950686 / 9780813950686
Zustand	Neuware