My Mountain and My Valley - Couverture souple

Sharma, Parmananda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9383441607 ISBN 13 : 9789383441600

Editeur : Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2015

Synopsis

"My Mountain and My Valley" by Professor Parmananda Sharma, we follow one man's simple yet remarkable personal life and adventures through some of the most extraordinary decades and events of the last century in India, including his remarkable meetings with key political and spiritual figures. He reveals his own quirks and those in his professional and personal world, and at the pinnacle shares moments from his mutually karmic friendship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Professor Parmananda Sharma is an educated man willing to share and record important details of his own remarkable slice of history, and himself, to others. He speaks and writes eloquently in several languages and like all true educators understands the responsibility of recording stories. The story recorded here is for the interest and inspiration of future generations, to give them glimpses of a world that has moved on to more dangerous things, the importance of education, motivation and action for good, and our collective choice about the future of our challenging world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Prof. Sharma has not only been one of the first Indian friends of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but also a friend and mentor of the exile Tibetan administration for decades. He has been a member of the LTWA governing body, since 1987 and has also been on various advisory bodies within the Tibetan administration. Born in 1923, Parmananda Sharma did his Masters in English language and literature from Government College Lahore in 1945. After teaching for about four decades in various colleges of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh he finally retired in 1982 as the Principal, Government College, Dharamsala. Prof. Sharma has more than thirty publications to his credit, including Hindi Mahakavyas, English poetry and prose and translations from Sanskrit into English of such Buddhist classics of 9th and 10th centuries as Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara and Kamalasila’s Bhavanakrama (with Forewords from H.H. the Dalai Lama,) a Hindi translation of Atisha’s Bodhipatha-pradeep and two volumes of Hindi translations of the Dalai Lama’s discourses, besides others. His Men and Mules on a Mission of Democracy (pub. 1960) had a Foreword from Jawaharlal Nehru. His first Mahakavya on Shivajee (1948) earned him a prize from the U.P. government. Nominated as Hindi Rajkavi by the Punjab Government in 1964, Prof. Sharma also served as a member of the General Council of Sahitya Academy, New Delhi from 1977-82. He was nominated for life to be a Member of the Governing Body of LTWA in 1987 by H.H. the Dalai Lama.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9383441607
• ISBN 13: 9789383441600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 141
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