Music in the Sky: The Life, Art and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karamapa, Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje | Date: 21 April 2011, 11:54
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MUSIC IN THE SKY: The Life, Art and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje by Michele Martin.
As the second millennium drew to a close, the Seventeenth Karmapa leapt from the roof at his monastery in Tibet. Evading his Chinese guards, the 14-year-old spiritual leader began a grueling, dangerous journey to India. The Karmapa's picture has appeared all over the world since then, yet his own words are hard to find. Now, for the first time in print, Music in the Sky offers a series of the Karmapa's profound teachings, an extensive selection of his poetry, and a detailed and gripping account of his life and flight from his homeland. Readers will be captivated by this wonderfully accessible and profound book.
Music in the Sky concludes with brief biographies of all 16 previous Karmapas, specially composed for this collection by the highly respected Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Here, the reader will discover the compelling histories of the first Tibetan masters to be recognized as reincarnate lamas. Music in the Sky presents a definitive portrait of the Seventeenth Karmapa, strengthened and illuminated by an authoritative depiction of his place in one of the world's most revered lines of spiritual teachers.
"I was so very surprised and happy when I read the profound poem by the 17th Karmapa as he wrote about his escape from Tibet in a poetic form. Even my poems do not have this quality or profundity. From that point onwards, I realized that the Karmapa is in fact a being who possesses the clarity of inner wisdom, who is very keen to learn Buddhist logic and philosophy. I told many others about the poem and how wonderful it was from the point of view of his knowledge of Dharma and the wisdom within."--H.H. the Dalai Lama
"The bright sun of the Gyalwa Karmapa shines throughout this book. It illuminates his young life from his discovery in eastern Tibet through his difficult journey to India. The text also reveals the breadth of his teachings and the beauty of his poetry and art. Anyone wishing to know more about him and the ancient tradition of Buddhism he embodies would do well to read this book."--Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, tutor to H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, a senior teacher of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan buddhism and author of Essential Practice and Everyday Consciousness and Buddha-Awakening
"Music in the Sky is a profoundly moving story of one of Tibet's greatest teachers. His Holiness the Karmapa is alive and very well in India, and shares with us his teachings, poetry and spiritual insights in this delightful book.--Richard Gere
"An emanation of the Buddha of compassion, the Gyalwa Karmapa engages in all the enlightened activities of the Buddha. Even at his young age, he is benefitting living beings through the variety of his skillful means. I believe all readers of this book will enjoy it and, further, find valuable knowledge that will lead them to the awakening of their own wisdom."--The Twelfth Tai Situpa
"Destined to be a classic, Music in the Sky is an unprecedented introduction to the young master who holds Tibetan Buddhism's most ancient lineage."--Ziji
"A reader curious solely about Ogyen Trinley may well prefer Michelle Martin's biography of him, Music in the Sky, for it is more succinct, more dramatic and beautifully written.."--Washington Post
A Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years, Michele Martin has spent the last fifteen years based in Nepal and India, studying with Tibetan lamas and working as a translator of oral and written Tibetan. With graduate degrees from Yale University and years of work as an editor, her publications include numerous translations from Tibetan texts on philosophy and meditation, and also articles on Buddhism. For the last two years, she has translated for the Karmapa and currently lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.
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