Longing to Awaken – Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song Gayley Townsend
Longing to AwakenBuddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song\nAuthor(s): Holly Gayley, Dominique Townsend, Lama Jabb\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813950686, 978-0813950686\nSynopsis\nAn indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs\n\nLonging to Awaken features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods. The anthology invites readers to experience a variety of poetic forms that embody a range of emotions, from grief and longing to skepticism and humor, demonstrating the ways that poetry can inspire faith as well as reflect the profundity and at times fraught nature of the teacher-student relationship. This collection gives weight to literarynot simply literaltranslation as a crucial endeavor in the transmission of Buddhism today, one with the potential to raise the profile .
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