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Gendün Chöphel


Born
in Tongren Country, Tibet
January 01, 1903

Died
January 01, 1951

Genre
Spirituality, Poetry


Gendün Chöphel (Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེ�, Wylie: dge 'dun chos 'phel) (1903�1951) was a Tibetan artist, writer and scholar. He was born in 1903 in Rabkong, Amdo. He was a creative and controversial figure and he is considered by many to have been one of the most important Tibetan intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Gendün Chöphel was a friend of Rahul Sankrityayan. His life was the inspiration for Luc Schaedler's film The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet and The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chophel. He is best known for his collection of essays called Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Pilgrimage, written during his time in India and Sri Lanka in between 1934 and 1946. These essays were cr ...more

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In the Forest of Faded Wisd...
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