RT Book
T1 Running toward mystery: the adventure of an unconventional life
A1 Tenzin Priyadarshi
A1 Houshmand, Zara 1953-
LA English
PP New York
PB Random House
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166827194X
AB Going forth : West Bengal, 1989 -- Coming home to Vulture Peak -- Taking vows -- Trial by family -- Silence, history, and the testing of gold -- The keepers of Fujii Guruji's Temple -- Snakes and scorpions: Nepal, 1992 -- Is there so much joy in your religion? -- Reverend Sasaki in Sarnath, where the wheel turns -- The Venerable Professor Samdhong Rinpoche -- Radical integrity: in the presence of Drubwang Rinpoche -- Tulkus and role models -- Father Thomas Keating -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- Colombia, 2014
AB "The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family. At the age of six he began having visions of a snowy mountainous region in which men with shaved heads, in robes the color of sunset, wandered about. "It was as vivid as if I were watching a scene from life," he writes. At the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place, taking a train to the end of the line and then boarding a bus to wherever it went. Strangely enough, he ended up in the Himalayan mountains at a Buddhist monastery that was the place of his dreams. His frantic parents sent scouts to find him, and after two weeks located him and brought him home--and yet he continued to have visions and feel a strong pull to a religion he had never heard of as a child. Today he is a revered Buddhist monk and teacher who heads MIT's Dalai Lama Center and works to build bridges among communities and religions. Beckoning is Tenzin Priyadarshi's account of his journey as a seeker, but at the book's heart is the importance of mentorship. He describes the roles of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way, including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Pope Benedict XVI, and others who appeared at the right time to impart much-needed lessons. This is both a mystical account of a life and a down-to-earth memoir by a remarkable man who set out to find meaning and make a difference"--
CN BQ990.E58
SN 9781984819857
K1 Tenzin Priyadarshi
K1 Buddhist monks : India : Biography
K1 Mentoring : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Erlebnisbericht