The hidden tradition: life inside the great Tibetan monastery Tashilhunpo

by Meng Zi, Lioao Pin

$65 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1993 . First edition in English, folio, pp. 176; illustrated in color throughout; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Tashilhunpo, located in Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet, is one of the four great monasteries of the Ge-lug-pa Order Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Beginning in the 17th century, two centuries after its initial construction, the monastery has been the permanent residence of seven Panchen Lamas,

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