Research Catalog

Title

The second Dalai Lama : his life and teachings / translated, edited, introduced, and annotated by Glenn H. Mullin.

Author

Dge-ʾdun-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama II, 1476-1542

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Mullin, Glenn H.

Description

xvii, 270 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Mystical verses of a mad Dalai Lama.

Subject

• Dge-ʾdun-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama II, 1476-1542
• Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) > Doctrines > Early works to 1800

Note

• Previously published under the title: Mystical verses of a mad Dalai Lama. Wheaton, Ill. : Theosophical Pub. House, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / H.H. the Dalai Lama -- pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Life of the second Dalai Lama -- pt. 3. Mystical verses of the second Dalai Lama : translation and commentary -- 1. Song of a young reincarnation -- 2. A dance to delight the world -- 3. Two alphabetical poems -- 4. Song of the Yarlung Valley -- 5. Song of the traveling bee -- 6. From a vision of Lama Tsongkhapa -- 7. Meditations to prepare the mind for death -- 8. Song of the enlightenment path -- 9. Three songs to Sung-rab Gyatso -- 10. Song of the tantric path -- 11. A prayer of pure aspirations -- 12. A necklace of jewels -- 13. Spiritual advice to a hermit -- 14. In search of the middle view -- 15. Song of a joyful fate -- 16. Song to Lama Norzang Gyatso -- 17. A song of spiritual joy -- 18. Ah-oh-Ia : the wise they sing -- 19. Songs of the turquoise dragon -- 20. A song to a female Bodhisattva -- 21. Song of tantric experience -- 22. A prayer to the spiritual master -- 23. A song of not so bad -- 24. Song to the three jewels of refuge -- 25. Verse for Lodro Tsultrim.

ISBN

• 1559392339
• 9781559392334

OCLC

• 61709181
• SCSB-12745201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library