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EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y. [Ed.]. Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kahbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, according to the late La….
EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y. [Ed.] Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kahbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. London: Oxford University Press,
Large 8vo., original green cloth lettered and decorated in buddhist decorations to upper cover and spine; in the repeat dust jacket (30s. Net); pages untrimmed; pp. [vii], viii-xxviii, [i], , [i]; with full colour frontis and a further 6 black and vit plates; light spotting to prelims, previous Foyles sticker to rear paste-down; else a very good copy in the original unrestored dust cover which is lightly browned along spine and folds; some marginal splitting to upper and lower portion of front flap fold; miniscule pen mark to upper panel; very good.
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Tibet's Great Yogī Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan
Well, at least one thing's for certain. I did read this thinking why not go to the big man himself for my foray into black magic, which isn't exactly what he was going for when he narrated his life story but fortunately I finished this book to my utter disappointment. inom learned just the two words of incantation which has thus far failed to show any signs of black magic. On the other hand my friend has contracted a cold, so Anyways, so much for my future as a young, handsome, up and coming talent in the black magic scene.
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Milarepa
Tibetan yogi
For other uses, see Milarepa (disambiguation).
Jetsun Milarepa (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ, Wylie: rje btsun mi la ras pa, /40–/23) was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple. He is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings are known among several schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also famous for the feat of climbing Mount Kailash.
Biography — The Life of Milarepa
[edit]Milarepa's life-story is famous in Tibetan culture, and retold many times. The best-known biography, The Life of Milarepa, written by Tsangnyön Heruka (–) in the fifteenth century and drawing from older biographies, is still very popular. Most of the present-day stories on Milarepa come from thi