![]() He is the Tibetan Buddha held by the followers of Vajrayana Buddhism as an equal to the Buddha himself, and sometimes even greater. Yeshe Tsogyel was the chief consort of Bodhisattva Padmasambhava, Tibet’s greatest Buddhist guru. Dowman is actually the translator of The Sky Dancer, which is, as the subtitle says, “ The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel.” The book is what Tibetans call a ‘terma’, a book written for the future and kept psychically hidden until its time came. ![]() I had to stop reading here because my eyes wouldn’t allow me to continue.Īs a genre I am not particularly fond of biographies and autobiographies, though one of my all time favorite books is an autobiography: The Sky Dancer, by Keith Dowman. I just finished reading the chapter entitled In Love, which, among other things, deals with Krishnamurti’s falling in love with an American girl called Helen Knothe. I am back from the journey now, and I am only half way through Lutyens’s fascinating biography of one of the most original teachers the world has ever seen. I do not know what eventually made me decide – perhaps the fact that I had already read two of the five plays – but it was an old copy of Krishnamurti that has been with me for several years now that I eventually picked up. ![]() ![]() I debated between Mahashweta Devi’s Five Plays and Mary Lutyens’ Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening. Recently I was looking for a book that was handy to take with me for reading in the train. ![]()
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