Books by Dge-ʼdun-chos-ʼphel A-mdo

1. Gendun Chopel, Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler , introduction by Thupte Jimpa and Donald S. Lopez Jr.  A very learned Tibetan scholar travels to India and records his hyper-structured impressions of what is obviously a more modern and economically developed land.  Yet India is also the original homeland of Buddhism and as such a source of obsession about the distant past.  Brilliantly rendered, the manuscript reads like a source that would have inspired Borges.  Every now and...