Yungdrung: A Ramble in Tibetan Studies, A Festschrift for Charles Ramble - Couverture rigide

Name: Yungdrung: A Ramble in Tibetan Studies, A Festschrift for Charles Ramble
ISBN: 9789937733465

9789937733465: Yungdrung: A Ramble in Tibetan Studies, A Festschrift for Charles Ramble

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ISBN 10 : 9937733464 ISBN 13 : 9789937733465

Editeur : Vajra Publications, 2026

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One has to start somewhere: let me begin by reminding you that one long evening Charles translated Freddie Mercury's operatic prog-rock ballad Bohemian Rhapsody into Tibetan-now, where do we go from there? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Charles was, until his Oxford retirement, the founder, heart, and animating genius of the Tibetan & Himalayan Studies programme. This was founded within Oxford's Oriental Institute (as was), and was turned, by Charles' sheer force of personality and will, into an impossible and unlikely success. The central point is Wolfson College, where Charles' centripetal force spun an extraordinary collection of interested people harmoniously into the orbit of his proto-faculty....

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