Samdhong Rinpoche

Donovan Roebert

ISBN 10: 1933316209 / ISBN 13: 9781933316208

Published by World Wisdom Books, US, 2006

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This first-ever series of in-depth dialogues with Samdhong Rinpoche, the current Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, presents his refreshing views on a wide range of pressing topics including the problems of the present political world order, the philosophy of "non-violence" (Ahimsa) and "truth-insistence" (Satyagraha) and the plight of Tibet in the face of the communist Chinese invasion. Informed throughout by his deep belief in the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, "Samdhong Rinpoche" holds to an uncompromising vision of the Truth - the way the world could be if it renounced its destructive path of unprincipled pragmatism and worldly compromise. Venerable Professor Samdhong Rinpoche was born in 1939 in the Tibetan province of Kham. At the age of five he was recognised and enthroned as the reincarnation of the fourth Samdhong Rinpoche. In 1959 he fled to India to escape the repressive Chinese government in Tibet. There he was commissioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as a teacher to monks in exile. In 2001, Rinpoche was named Prime Minister of the Tibetan Exile Government, the first political leader to be directly elected by the people in exile."Rinpoche is a great scholar, with a deep and vast understanding of Buddhist philosophy, both Sutra and Tantra; not only a scholar but a great practitioner, living in the meaning." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche, one of the world's most beloved Tibetan teachers. This book includes a foreword by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Samdhong Rinpoche
• Publisher: World Wisdom Books, US
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933316209
• ISBN 13: 9781933316208
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1 gram

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Synopsis

This is the first-ever series of in-depth dialogues with the current Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, presenting his views on the plight of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the face of the communist Chinese invasion.

About the Author

Donovan Roebert is the founder and coordinator of the South African Friends of Tibet. Born in East London, South Africa, he is a painter whose works are sold internationally. A devoted practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism for over a decade, he has also written several religious and philosophical articles on reconciling new physics and the neurosciences with the subjective human religious experience. He lives in Broederstroom, South Africa.

Samdhong Rinpoche was the first political leader to be directly elected by the people-in-exile. He lives in India. He is the subject of Samdhong Rinpoche’s Uncompromising Truth for a Compromised World.

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is both the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. Following the invasion of Tibet by the communist-inspired Chinese Army in 1959 and the impending threat on his life, he escaped into exile and has since resided in Dharmsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and an author of numerous books and essays, including Kindness, Clarity and Insight (1984), A Human Approach to World Peace (1984), and Ocean of Wisdom (1989).