Gendün Chöphel
Amdo Gendün Chöphel (Tibetan དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ, 1903–1951). A creative and controversial figure, friend of Rahul Sankrityayan, who is considered by many to have been one of the most important Tibetan intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life was the inspiration for Luc Schaedler's film The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet [1] and The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel[2] .
References
- ^ The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet
- ^ Lopez Jr., Donald S. (2006). The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-49316-4.
Sources
- Chöphel, Gendün (2005 (2d. Ed. 2006)), Clarifying the core of Madhyamaka: Ornament of the thought of Nagarjuna., Arcidosso, GR, Italy: Shang Shung Publications
- Chöphel, Gendun; Hopkins, Jeffrey (1993), Tibetan Arts of Love, Snow Lion Publications, ISBN 0-937938-97-1
- Chöpel, Gedün (2006). Die tibetische Liebeskunst. Nietsch. ISBN 3-934647-97-9.
- Chopel, Gedun (1985). Dhammapada, Translation of the Dharma Verses with the Tibetan Text. Dharma Publishing. ISBN 0-913546-98-4.
- Chopel, Gedun (2009). In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Donald S. Lopez Jr.. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-10452-2.
- Bogin, Benjamin; Decleer, Hubert (1997), "Who was 'this evil friend' ('the dog', the 'fool', 'the tyrant') in Gedun Chophel's Sad Song?", The Tibet Journal 22 (3): 67–78
- Dhondup, K.: "Gedun Chophel: the Man Behind the Legend". Tibetan Review, vol. 13, no. 10, October 1978, p. 10–18.
- [|Huber, Toni] (2000). Guide to India, a Tibetan Account By: Gendun Chopel. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. pp. 162pp. ISBN 81-86470-25-5. http://www.namsebangdzo.com/Guide_to_India_a_Tibetan_Account_p/12601.htm.
- Jinpa, Thupten (2003), "Science as an Allay or a Rival Philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist Thinkers' Engagement with Modern Science", in Wallace, B. Alan, Buddhism & Science: Breaking New Ground, Published by Columbia University Press, pp. 71–85, ISBN 0-231-12335-3
- Lopez, Donald S. (Jr.) (2007). The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-49317-2.
- Mengele, Irmgard (1999). Gedun Chopel: A Biography of the 20th Century Tibetan Scholar. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. ISBN 81-86470-23-9.
- Stoddard, Heather (1985). Le mendiant de l'Amdo (Recherches sur la Haute Asie). Paris: Societe d'ethnographie. ISBN 2-901161-28-6.
- Roerich, George N. and Gedun Choepel (Translator) (1988). The Blue Annals by Gö Lotsawa. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1976, Reprint in 1979. [reprint of Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949, in two volumes].
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Chophel, Gendun |
| Alternative names |
Gendun Choephel |
| Short description |
Lama, intellectual, artist, writer and scholar |
| Date of birth |
1903 |
| Place of birth |
Repkong, Amdo, Tibet |
| Date of death |
1951 |
| Place of death |
Lhasa, Tibet |