Born in Tibet

Previous owner's signature. 1/2" tear in front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 264, [2] pages + 12 illustrations on 6 plate leaves. Frontispiece and 7 other illustrations within the pagination. 8 tailpiece illustrations of symbols of the eight blessings of the Buddha. Maps on endpapers. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed red. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. With a Foreword by Marco Pallis. "This is the story of the early life and escape from the Chinese of a young tulku of Tibet, an incarnate lama of high rank, as told to Esme Cramer Roberts in Oxford. Born in a cow byre in 1939, he was installed at the age of thirteen months and for the tenth successive time as the religious head and supreme abbot of the Surmang group of monasteries. The account of his religious education is - to Westerners - quite fantastic. His description of the meditational centres and seminaries and of his tutors and spiritual teachers is absorbing. The book shows, in particular, the quality of human life as lived in Tibet at all levels." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Product Info

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin

Year: (1966)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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