Book Summary
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Tibetan by Geoffrey Waters. The life and poetry of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), are unique in the lineage of the Dalai Lama. He refused to take full monastic vows and returned to the world, loving alcohol, archery, and women with a passion that perhaps suggests that he had a premonition of his early death at age twenty-four. The 120 poems included here are like small windows through which one glimpses the life he led. Most of them are made up of four unrhymed lines of six syllables each, yielding something between the Japanese haiku and the Chinese jueju (quatrain) in their brevity.
Book Details
| Book Name | White Crane: Love Songs Of The Sixth Dalai Lama |
| Author | Geoffrey R. Waters |
| Publisher | White Pine Press (ny) (Jul 2007) |
| ISBN | 9781893996823 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 510 |
