Karu Drubwang Tenzin Rinchen (1801-?) - Prof. Charles Ramble - Thursday, April 1, 2021, 06:30-08:00 pm - SSI UK

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Karu Drubwang Tenzin Rinchen (1801-?) - Prof. Charles Ramble - Thursday, April 1, 2021, 06:30-08:00 pm - SSI UK

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An introduction to the fascinating life and work of the Bonpo master Karu Drubwang Tenzin Rinchen (1801-?) by Prof. Charles Ramble (Shang Shung Institute UK, 5-10 GBP), Thursday, April 1, 2021 from 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm, London time. From the website:

Karu Drubwang Tenzin Rinchen is probably best known as the nineteenth-century author of the Gangs ti se dkar chag, the longest and most elaborate of the (admittedly few) Bonpo guides to Mt Kailash. The general impression of the author that we distil from this work is of a rather tetchy Bonpo polemicist and the most important architect of what we may, for want of a better term, refer to as “Zhangzhung nationalism”. Among his other writings, Karu also wrote an autobiography that has attracted very little attention outside Tibetan Bonpo circles. This lengthy work, consisting of 575 pages (folio sides), does nothing to dispel the image of Karu as a staunch champion of his faith; but it does offer an altogether more nuanced three-dimensional portrait of its protagonist than the guidebook to Kailash allows. Following a difficult childhood as a young monk from an impoverished background in eastern Tibet, he later travelled extensively in western Tibet and Nepal. His stories of his enounters – some of them very entertaining - with kings, brahmans, outcastes and borderland tribes show him to be a highly sympathetic individual with a keen interest in the unfamiliar customs he encountered, and that he took care to document with great precision.

Find out more at our talk about this fascinating teacher.

https://www.shangshunguk.org/whats-on/#event=41468267
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