The illusive play: the autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama

by Samten G. Karmay

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2014 . Large 8vo, pp. 4 , v-x, 589; 22 illustrations largely photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates, 1 map in introduction; full red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An English translation of the autobiography of Ngagwang Lobzang Gyatsho, the Fifth Dalai Lama 1617-1682 ... a veritable witness to the life and culture of Tibet in the 17th century, which was a formative

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