The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön / / Alison Melnick Dyer.
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle, Washington : : University of Washington Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Note to the Reader
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1. A Privileged Life
- 2. Authorizing the Saint
- 3. Multivocal Lives
- 4. Mingyur Peldrön the Diplomat
- 5. The Death of Mingyur Peldrön and the Making of a Saint
- Tibetan Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.