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I was trying to find his book "The Inner Structure of the I Ching" but it is OOP and fetching very high prices. There were two editions, one in 1981, and one in 1996.
ISBN 0935706003
ISBN 0834801655
I wondered if anyone here has this book and could comment on its usefullness as an I Ching commentary?
I was fascinated to find this fellow's brief biography on the web. His book "The Way of the White Clouds" is still in print, probably because he was such an interesting person. Has anyone read that book as well?
Thanks
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"ABOUT LAMA ANAGARIKA GOVINDA
He was born as Ernst Lothar Hoffman in Waldheim, Germany in 1898, son
of a German father and a Bolivian mother. He was invalided out of
German army during the First World War because of tuberculosis. He was
the founder of the Buddhist Order Arya Maitreya Mandala. He came to
India in his early years. His interest in Buddhism and monastic life
led him to Sri Lanka and Burma.
He had been to Tibet many times lived for two years in Central and
Western Tibet with his wife Li Gotami, a British Educated Parsee from
Bombay. In 1931 he attended a Buddhist Conference in Darjeeling
intending to affirm the purity of the Theravadin tradition against the
Mahayana, which in his view, had degenerated into "a system of demon
worship and weird beliefs."
This trip to Darjeeling was to alter his life. Here he met his Tibetan
Guru, Tomo Geshe Rinpoche, under whose influence he converted into
Gelugpa sect. He finally settled in Almora, India. He held posts in
various Indian universities and held exhibitions of his paintings,
several of which he made together with his wife still in Tibet. In
1971 he made a journey to America and Canada. In 1972 he was on tour
in Europe. He became a mediator and peacemaker between Wests.
Govinda's Tibetan experiences are recounted in his book The Way of the
White Clouds, which includes elements from several genre-spiritual
journals, adventure narratives, anthropological field reports and
philosophical commentaries. It is one of the century's classic
spiritual autobiographies. Lama Govinda's final years were spent in
California living in the San Francisco Bay area on Alan Watts'
houseboat, then in Mill Valley.
In San Francisco he established an American branch of the Arya
Maitreya Mandala, called "Home of Dhyan". He is considered to be
perhaps the most influential in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the
West. He died in 1986. His ashes are contained in the Nirvana-Stupa,
which was erected in 1997 on the premises of Samten Choeling Monastery
(a Tibetan Monastery), in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal,
India."
ISBN 0935706003
ISBN 0834801655
I wondered if anyone here has this book and could comment on its usefullness as an I Ching commentary?
I was fascinated to find this fellow's brief biography on the web. His book "The Way of the White Clouds" is still in print, probably because he was such an interesting person. Has anyone read that book as well?
Thanks
******************
"ABOUT LAMA ANAGARIKA GOVINDA
He was born as Ernst Lothar Hoffman in Waldheim, Germany in 1898, son
of a German father and a Bolivian mother. He was invalided out of
German army during the First World War because of tuberculosis. He was
the founder of the Buddhist Order Arya Maitreya Mandala. He came to
India in his early years. His interest in Buddhism and monastic life
led him to Sri Lanka and Burma.
He had been to Tibet many times lived for two years in Central and
Western Tibet with his wife Li Gotami, a British Educated Parsee from
Bombay. In 1931 he attended a Buddhist Conference in Darjeeling
intending to affirm the purity of the Theravadin tradition against the
Mahayana, which in his view, had degenerated into "a system of demon
worship and weird beliefs."
This trip to Darjeeling was to alter his life. Here he met his Tibetan
Guru, Tomo Geshe Rinpoche, under whose influence he converted into
Gelugpa sect. He finally settled in Almora, India. He held posts in
various Indian universities and held exhibitions of his paintings,
several of which he made together with his wife still in Tibet. In
1971 he made a journey to America and Canada. In 1972 he was on tour
in Europe. He became a mediator and peacemaker between Wests.
Govinda's Tibetan experiences are recounted in his book The Way of the
White Clouds, which includes elements from several genre-spiritual
journals, adventure narratives, anthropological field reports and
philosophical commentaries. It is one of the century's classic
spiritual autobiographies. Lama Govinda's final years were spent in
California living in the San Francisco Bay area on Alan Watts'
houseboat, then in Mill Valley.
In San Francisco he established an American branch of the Arya
Maitreya Mandala, called "Home of Dhyan". He is considered to be
perhaps the most influential in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the
West. He died in 1986. His ashes are contained in the Nirvana-Stupa,
which was erected in 1997 on the premises of Samten Choeling Monastery
(a Tibetan Monastery), in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal,
India."
