Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of Chagdud Tulku Lama

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Summary: Wisdom and adventure together! Extraordinary story!
Review: Chagdud Tulku is one of the great meditation masters to come to the west, and a colorful, engaging personality. This candid account of his own life--growing up in Tibet, marriage, flight and exile--is good, exciting reading. It's also an inspiring story of the human spirit, containing extraordinary wisdom amidst the humor, joy and pain of this ordinary but very special life

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Summary: Riveting
Review: Lord of the Dance is spellbinding. Don't expect to read a typical (boring) Buddhist book here. This memoir is filled with adventure and magic. From its opening chapters when a young tulku attempts to shoot his mother's boyfriend with an arrow through the tragic invasion of Tibet and into the heartbreaking sagas of the refugee camps in India, the reader is taken on an unforgetable and graceful journey. This book was hard for me to shake. It challenged what I believed and at the same time expanded my capacity for belief. Along the way, almost discretely, I became engaged in the inner workings of Tibetan Buddhism. The first time I read Lord of the Dance, I finished the book straight through in a matter of hours. It is beautifully rendered. If Marquez were to write about Tibet, you might have something of the world of Lord of the Dance.

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Summary: a multi-layered life
Review: Rebeccasreads offers kudos to the team of Lisa Leghorn, Tsering Everest & Jane Tromge, Chagdun Tulku's wife, for their ministrations in translating & massaging the Master's memories.

Be prepared to read slowly, meditavely, as you follow this author along his long & winding road from conception on the Roof of the World to his recognition, at age three, as the incarnation of Tanpai Gyaltsan, the Chagdun Tulku; from mountain valleys & monastaries into trainings & retreats; on journeys fraught with travails few Western travelers can grasp, carrying little, hurrying from destruction toward his destiny, here in the West.

Read LORD OF THE DANCE for the sheer adventure of it, about a rare time & a rare people. Notice the way the author describes things, especially his experiences of awareness; listen to the voice tell the tales so unlike any in the West; hear the humor & "see" the dreams, & your life will be enriched a thousand fold.

Rating:
Summary: a multi-layered life
Review: Rebeccasreads offers kudos to the team of Lisa Leghorn, Tsering Everest & Jane Tromge, Chagdun Tulku's wife, for their ministrations in translating & massaging the Master's memories.

Be prepared to read slowly, meditavely, as you follow this author along his long & winding road from conception on the Roof of the World to his recognition, at age three, as the incarnation of Tanpai Gyaltsan, the Chagdun Tulku; from mountain valleys & monastaries into trainings & retreats; on journeys fraught with travails few Western travelers can grasp, carrying little, hurrying from destruction toward his destiny, here in the West.

Read LORD OF THE DANCE for the sheer adventure of it, about a rare time & a rare people. Notice the way the author describes things, especially his experiences of awareness; listen to the voice tell the tales so unlike any in the West; hear the humor & "see" the dreams, & your life will be enriched a thousand fold.

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Summary: May All Beings Benefit
Review: The book doesn't really gives an idea of the man, the compassionate and kind Chagdud, but even so it is remarkable and it's worth every penny. It is very interesting even to those outside the buddhist tradition. Rinpoche is now here in South Brazil, building a traditional temple and revealing the pure and ortodox tibetan Dharma to this sunny side of the globe.

Rating:
Summary: May All Beings Benefit
Review: The book doesn't really gives an idea of the man, the compassionate and kind Chagdud, but even so it is remarkable and it's worth every penny. It is very interesting even to those outside the buddhist tradition. Rinpoche is now here in South Brazil, building a traditional temple and revealing the pure and ortodox tibetan Dharma to this sunny side of the globe.