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Presents a collection of photographs presented with brief biographies and teachings from each master. This work testifies to the compassion and wisdom that lies at the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It plays a role in preserving Tibetan culture, in all its richness and complexity, through the words and faces of its esteemed masters.
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"An inspiring book of heart-warming photographs of leading Tibetan lamas with pithy, provocative teachings from each, at once thought-provoking and deeply moving."
About the Author
Inspired by Buddhism early in his career as a professional freelance photographer, Don Farber became a disciple of the late Vietnamese Zen master and scholar Thich Thien-An and in 1977 embarked on a ten-year photographic study of life in a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Los Angeles. Following the publication of Taking Refuge in L.A. (1987, with text by Rick Fields and an introduction by Thich Nhat Hanh), Farber set out to photograph Buddhist life internationally and, to date, has carried out this work in eight Asian countries and the United States. His travels resulted in his critically acclaimed book Visions of Buddhist Life (California, 2002; foreword by Huston Smith) and Tibetan Buddhist Life (2003). This Fulbright scholar's photographs have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asia Society in New York, have appeared in magazines such as Life and Time, and are often published in the Buddhist magazines Tricycle and Shambhala Sun. His photographs have been featured on the covers of many books, including the international best-seller The Art of Happiness (1998) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. Sogyal Rinpoche is a world-renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and the author of the best-selling book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992). Rebecca McClen Novick is the author of Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, cowriter of Tibetan Buddhist Life, and the editor of a number of books on Tibetan Buddhism.
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0520239733
- ISBN 13 9780520239739
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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