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|tolExcerpt=Amdo Gendun Chopel, a twentieth-century philosopher-artist-historian, has emerged as one of the most controversial figures in the recent history of the Land of Snows. He remains to this day the most admired and loved writer and poet, bridging the divide between tradition and modernity. He traveled widely in India and the Himalayan region in the 1930s and 40s, encountering philosophers and revolutionaries and absorbing their ideas. His compositions, from descriptions of New York skyscrapers to brilliant commentary on Madhyamaka philosophy, are widely read. In the chaotic last days of the Tibetan state he was accused of being a Communist spy and was imprisoned in Lhasa, his unfinished Political History of Tibet destroyed, and his spirit broken. He died just weeks after the Chinese Communists arrived in Lhasa. | |tolExcerpt=Amdo Gendun Chopel, a twentieth-century philosopher-artist-historian, has emerged as one of the most controversial figures in the recent history of the Land of Snows. He remains to this day the most admired and loved writer and poet, bridging the divide between tradition and modernity. He traveled widely in India and the Himalayan region in the 1930s and 40s, encountering philosophers and revolutionaries and absorbing their ideas. His compositions, from descriptions of New York skyscrapers to brilliant commentary on Madhyamaka philosophy, are widely read. In the chaotic last days of the Tibetan state he was accused of being a Communist spy and was imprisoned in Lhasa, his unfinished Political History of Tibet destroyed, and his spirit broken. He died just weeks after the Chinese Communists arrived in Lhasa. | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:57, 29 March 2023
དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ
| Wylie | dge 'dun chos 'phel |
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| English Phonetics | Gendun Chöpel |
Other names
- ཨ་མདོ་དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་འཕེལ་
- a mdo dge 'dun chos 'phel
Alternate names
- Amdo Gendun Chöpel
- Gendun Chopel
- Amdo Gendun Chopel
Dates
| Birth: | 1903 |
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| Death: | 1951 |
Tibetan calendar dates
About
Other Biographical info:
Links
- BDRC Link (P219)
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P219
- Treasury of Lives Link
- https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gendun-Chopel/3866
- Wiki Pages
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