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Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two
Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul
Rinpoche (1944-2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism
in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters
exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche
envisioned a shared destiny to "heal the damage" done to Buddhism
during the years leading up to and including the Cultural
Revolution. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic
dimensions of their courtship and its consummation in a twenty-year
religious career that informs issues of gender and agency in
Buddhism, cultural preservation among Tibetan communities, and
alternative histories for minorities in China. The correspondence
between Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche is the first collection of
"love letters" to come to light in Tibetan literature. Blending
tantric imagery with poetic and folk song styles, their letters
have a fresh vernacular tone comparable to the love songs of the
Sixth Dalai Lama, but with an eastern Tibetan flavor. Gayley reads
these letters against hagiographic writings about the couple,
supplemented by field research, to illuminate representational
strategies that serve to narrate cultural trauma in a redemptive
key, quite unlike Chinese scar literature or the testimonials of
exile Tibetans. With special attention to Tare Lhamo's role as a
tantric heroine and her hagiographic fusion with Namtrul Rinpoche,
Gayley vividly shows how Buddhist masters have adapted Tibetan
literary genres to share private intimacies and address
contemporary social concerns.
Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two
Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul
Rinpoche (1944-2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism
in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters
exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche
envisioned a shared destiny to "heal the damage" done to Buddhism
during the years leading up to and including the Cultural
Revolution. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic
dimensions of their courtship and its consummation in a twenty-year
religious career that informs issues of gender and agency in
Buddhism, cultural preservation among Tibetan communities, and
alternative histories for minorities in China. The correspondence
between Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche is the first collection of
"love letters" to come to light in Tibetan literature. Blending
tantric imagery with poetic and folk song styles, their letters
have a fresh vernacular tone comparable to the love songs of the
Sixth Dalai Lama, but with an eastern Tibetan flavor. Gayley reads
these letters against hagiographic writings about the couple,
supplemented by field research, to illuminate representational
strategies that serve to narrate cultural trauma in a redemptive
key, quite unlike Chinese scar literature or the testimonials of
exile Tibetans. With special attention to Tare Lhamo's role as a
tantric heroine and her hagiographic fusion with Namtrul Rinpoche,
Gayley vividly shows how Buddhist masters have adapted Tibetan
literary genres to share private intimacies and address
contemporary social concerns.
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