This spirited new translation gives readers in English their first opportunity to encounter one of the most colorful and memorable figure in Tibetan Buddhist history.
RA YESH SENG was the eldest son of Ra Lotsawa's nephew. He lived in
Tibet's western province of Tsang around the late twelfth or early
thirteenth century and is traditionally renowned as the first
patriarch of what came to be known as the "Western tradition" of Ra
Lotsawa's spiritual lineage.
BRYAN J. CUEVAS is the author of Travels in the Netherworld-
Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet,
among other works. He is John F. Priest Professor of Religion and
Director of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at Florida State
University.
There is no calculating the number of incorrigible people whom he
vanquished, one and all, by killing, banishing, rendering,
paralyzing and the like. All the lotsawas and learned scholars who
turned the wheel of dharma had to resign before the mighty Ralo
*The Wondrous Faith*
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