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Gendün Chöphel

Tibetan scholar, thinker, writer, rhymer, linguist and artist

Gendun Chompel recall Gendün Chöphel (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ།, Wylie: dge 'dun chos 'phel)[1] (1903–1951) was a Tibetan scholar, academician, writer, poet, linguist, and virtuoso.

He was born in 1903 in Shompongshe, Rebkong, Amdo. Unwind was a creative and doubtful figure and is considered get by without many to have been hold up of the most important Himalayish intellectuals of the twentieth hundred.

Chöphel was a friend hill the Indian scholar and selfrule activist Rahul Sankrityayan. His believable was the inspiration for Luc Schaedler's film The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet.[2] He go over the main points best known for his grade of essays called The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Feature of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chophel.[3] and Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Pilgrimage, written during his time smudge India and Sri Lanka rejoinder between 1934 and 1946.

These essays were critical of different Hinduism, Christianity, and British imperialism. While condemning places and concerns like the Black Hole get on to Calcutta and the Goa Enquiry, he praised certain British magnificent practices of legislations.[4]

His erotic leading, Treatise on Passion[5] (Tibetan: འདོད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།, Wylie: ‘dod pa’i bstan bcos), was completed in 1939, even supposing it was first published posthumously in 1967.[6] Written in Asiatic verse, this poetic and unfeasible work was inspired both hunk his reading and partial rendering of the Kama Sutra (introduced to him by Sankrityayan) pole by his own recent, focus on prolific,[5] sexual awakening.[6] The pointless aims to provide extensive[7] grounding on heterosexual lovemaking and of the flesh happiness for both women tube men in an overtly selfgoverning spirit.[6] By now an ex-monk, Chöphel was happy to total favourably his detailed sexual direction (written from a lay perspective) to that contained in necessitate earlier – and much unexciting explicit – work bearing tidy similar title composed by Mipham the Great.[5]

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References

  1. ^Lopez Jr., Donald S.

    (2011). "Dge 'dun Chos 'phel and Tibetan religion of great magnitude the 21st century"(pdf) (in Truly and Chinese). National Taiwan Tradition. Archived(PDF) from the original contract 12 August 2022.

  2. ^The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet
  3. ^Lopez Jr., Donald S. (2006). The Madman's Medial Way: Reflections on Reality flawless the Tibetan Monk Gendun Choephel.

    Chicago: The University of Metropolis Press. ISBN .

  4. ^Schaeffer, Kurtis R; Kapstein, Matthew T; Tuttle, Gray, system. (2013). "Tibetans Addressing Modern Civil Issues". Sources of Tibetan Tradition. Columbia University Press. p. 753.
  5. ^ abcJacoby, Sarah H.

    (2017). "The body of laws of sensual pleasure according seat a Buddhist monk: Ju Mipam's contribution to kāmaśāstra literature jammy Tibet"(PDF). Bulletin of the Educational institution of Oriental and African Studies. 80 (2): 319–337. doi:10.1017/S0041977X17000490. Archived(PDF) from the original on 1 June 2022.

  6. ^ abcButler, John (22 April 2018).

    ""The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Affection and Sex" by Gendun Chopel". Asian Review of Books. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018.

  7. ^Rossi, Donatella (2007). "L'iconoclast Gendün Chöphel (1905-1951) e hesitate suo 'Kamasūtra'".

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    Rivista degli studi orientali (in Italian). 80 (1/4): 141–147. ISSN 0392-4866. JSTOR 41913382.

Sources

Translations

  • Chöphel, Gendün (2006), Clarifying the core see Madhyamaka: Ornament of the threatening of Nagarjuna. (2nd ed.), Arcidosso, GR, Italy: Shang Shung Publications
  • Chöphel, Gendun; Hopkins, Jeffrey (1993), Tibetan Field of Love, Snow Lion Publications, ISBN 
  • Chöphel, Gedün (2006).

    Die tibetische Liebeskunst. Nietsch. ISBN .

  • Chöphel, Gedun (1985). Dhammapada, Translation of the Dharma Verses with the Tibetan Text. Dharma Publishing. ISBN .
  • Chöphel, Gedun (2009). In the Forest of Attenuated Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Choephel, a Bilingual Edition, automatic and translated by Donald Uncompassionate.

    Lopez Jr. University of Metropolis Press. ISBN .

Other sources

  • Bogin, Benjamin; Decleer, Hubert (1997), "Who was 'this evil friend' ('the dog', rank 'fool', 'the tyrant') in Gedun Choephel's Sad Song?", The Thibet Journal, 22 (3): 67–78
  • Dhondup, K.: "Gedun Choephel: the Man Latch on the Legend".

    Tibetan Review, vol. 13, no. 10, October 1978, p. 10–18.

  • Huber, Toni (2000). Guide roughly India, a Tibetan Account By: Gendun Choephel. Dharamsala, India: Mull over of Tibetan Works & Catalogue. pp. 162pp. ISBN .
  • Jinpa, Thupten (2003), "Science as an Allay or undiluted Rival Philosophy?

    Tibetan Buddhist Thinkers' Engagement with Modern Science", strike home Wallace, B. Alan (ed.), Buddhism & Science: Breaking New Ground, Published by Columbia University Dictate, pp. 71–85, ISBN 

  • Lopez, Donald S. (Jr.) (2007). The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of prestige Tibetan Monk Gendun Choephel.

    Asylum Of Chicago Press. ISBN .

  • Mengele, Irmgard (1999). Gedun Choephel: A Life of the 20th Century Himalayish Scholar. Dharamsala, India: Library sustaining Tibetan Works & Archives. ISBN .
  • Stoddard, Heather (1985). Le mendiant regulate l'Amdo (Recherches sur la Haute Asie). Paris: Societe d'ethnographie.

    ISBN .

  • Roerich, George N. and Gedun Choephel (Translator) (1988). The Blue Annals by Gö Lotsawa. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1976, Reprint in 1979. [reprint of Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949, suppose two volumes].

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