Series
Publication
Imprint: Bloomington, Indiana : World Wisdom, c2008. Series: The Perennial Philosophy Series. Responsibility: by Marco Pallis (Thubden Tendzin) ; edited & introduced by Joseph A. Fitzgerald ; foreword by Harry Oldmeadow ; appreciation by Paul Goble. OCLC Number: 179813890. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxx, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Features: Includes appendices, contributors, index.
Call number
PS / Palli
ISBN
9781933316536
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Marco Pallis (1895-1989) was a Renaissance man: a gifted musician, composer, mountaineer, translator of “perennialist” works, and a widely respected author on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas, where at first he climbed mountains and later studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition. From 1936 onward, he was a practicing Buddhist with the Tibetan name of Thubden Tendzin.
This book is a selection of his most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism, backed by his universalist approach to religious belief. Pallis focuses on the Tibetan tradition but situates it in the wider context of the perennial wisdom and the spiritual life which this entails. He provides the keen observations of a Westerner as he makes sense of spiritual practices, moral systems, modes of dress, and other traditions that are often hard to understand unless described by an open and seeking soul. Pallis was just such an observer, and the traditional world of Tibet that he encountered comes to life in much greater intelligibility for Western readers. -- from publisher
Table of Contents:
Foreword / Harry Oldmeadow --
Introduction / Joseph A Fitzgerald --
Appreciation / Paul Goble --
Author's preface --
1: Way and the mountain --
2: Active life --
3: On crossing religious frontiers --
4: On soliciting and imparting spiritual counsel --
5: Place of compassion in Tibetan spirituality --
6: Sikkim Buddhism today and tomorrow --
7: Do clothes make the man? --
8: Dalai Lama --
9: Tibetan tradition --
Afterword: Everlasting message --
Appendix 1: Twin sources of power --
Appendix 2: Discovering the interior life --
Appendix 3: Buddhist Garland for the Jagadguru --
Biographical notes --
Index.
FY2020 /
This book is a selection of his most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism, backed by his universalist approach to religious belief. Pallis focuses on the Tibetan tradition but situates it in the wider context of the perennial wisdom and the spiritual life which this entails. He provides the keen observations of a Westerner as he makes sense of spiritual practices, moral systems, modes of dress, and other traditions that are often hard to understand unless described by an open and seeking soul. Pallis was just such an observer, and the traditional world of Tibet that he encountered comes to life in much greater intelligibility for Western readers. -- from publisher
Table of Contents:
Foreword / Harry Oldmeadow --
Introduction / Joseph A Fitzgerald --
Appreciation / Paul Goble --
Author's preface --
1: Way and the mountain --
2: Active life --
3: On crossing religious frontiers --
4: On soliciting and imparting spiritual counsel --
5: Place of compassion in Tibetan spirituality --
6: Sikkim Buddhism today and tomorrow --
7: Do clothes make the man? --
8: Dalai Lama --
9: Tibetan tradition --
Afterword: Everlasting message --
Appendix 1: Twin sources of power --
Appendix 2: Discovering the interior life --
Appendix 3: Buddhist Garland for the Jagadguru --
Biographical notes --
Index.
FY2020 /
Physical description
xxx, 271 p.; 23 cm
Description
The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition before the communist invasion of Tibet in 1949.
Language
Original language
English