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The four works included in this collection have enjoyed a rather chequered career. They originally formed the second volume of the doctoral thesis Michael Aris submitted in 1978 to the University of London. They have been included because of their value as crucial source material on the formative era of Bhutanese history, as they cover the entire period leading to the full emergence of the Bhutanese theocracy. Their relative brevity as compared with the other ...
"The lineage of the Drukpa, since the auspicious moment its founder witnessed nine dragons flying up into the sky amidst positive omens, has been practiced by many serious practitioners, who attained englightenment within one lifetime. They left behind physical and spiritual legacies that we are still able to see and read as moral encouragement on the very lonely path of spirituality, in a time that modernization and materialism have seemingly become the ...