Donald S. Lopez Jr. : Encounters with Great Texts and Great Lamas (#117)
The Wisdom Podcast
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Is There a Debate?
i think most people would say the greatest tibetan poet of the twentieth century. He's a nmatuku from omda, his father was quite a prominent lama. A brilliant scholar who would dress up like a dotop and go to the main courtyard and defeat all the topdeches. Spent some time at srimanca. Most of his important works were written in india. And then went debet, was arrested for reasons that t remain unknown. Imprisoned, became a very serious alcoholic imprison and when he came out, he didn't live very long after that.
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