Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint Pitkin Annabella
Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint Pitkin Annabella Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines…
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Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint Pitkin Annabella
Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern.In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. At Khunu Lama's death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. Yet this elusive wandering renunciant became a revered teacher of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
The many surviving stories about him reveal significant dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of religious affect and memory that reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern.In Renunciation and Longing, Annabella Pitkin explores devotion, renunciation, and the teacher-student