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The Zen of Tantra. Tibetan Great Perfection in Fahai Lama's Chinese Zen Monastery (Paperback)
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The Zen of Tantra. Tibetan Great Perfection in Fahai Lama's Chinese Zen Monastery (Paperback)
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After the Zen boom of the 1960s and 1970s, Tibetan Buddhism
increasingly captured the West's imagination. Today, entire
stadiums fill when the Dalai Lama speaks, training centers
mushroom, and books proliferate. Even the most esoteric form of
Tibetan Buddhism, rDzogs chen or Great Perfection, has found
numerous followers in the West. But the West stands not alone: in
communist China, too, this form of Buddhism experienced a kind of
camouflaged boom from the 1980s. Monica Esposito (1962-2011), one
of Europe's foremost scholars of Chinese religions, observed this
process up close. After her discovery in 1988 of a Buddhist nunnery
on Mt. Tianmu in China's Zhejiang province, she lived and practiced
under the monastery's founder, a Chinese Zen (Chan) and Tibetan
rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) master called Fahai Lama
(1920-1991). Dr Esposito's book offers a fascinating glimpse into
the daily life and practices of a Chinese Buddhist monastery and
into the teachings of a man who not only survived the Cultural
revolution as an acupuncturist, Qigong master and recluse in a
Daoist cave, but managed to found and build a Chan monastery to
promote Tibetan Tantra in a still thoroughly communist environment.
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