 | Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet Subjects: Tā-re Bde-chen-lha-mo Mkha''-''gro Rin-po-che -- Correspondence; O-rgyan-''jigs-med-nam-mkha''-gling-pa Rin-po-che 1944–2011 -- Correspondence; Buddhists -- China -- Golog Zangzu Zizhizhou -- Correspondence; Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) -- China -- Golog Zangzu Ziz; Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944-2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic dimensions of their courtship and its consummation. Holly Gayley is assistant professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has been published in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and Numen , with a forthcoming article in the History of Religions . |
