Inseparable Across Lifetimes
Inseparable across Lifetimes
The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro T膩re Lhamo
By Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok
By Khandro Tare Lhamo
Translated by Holly Gayley
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An inspiring and intimate tale set against the turmoil of recent Tibetan history, Inseparable across Lifetimes offers for the first time the translations of love letters between two modern Buddhist visionaries. The letters are poetic, affectionate, and prophetic, articulating a hopeful vision of renewal that drew on their past lives together and led to their twenty-year partnership. This couple played a significant role in restoring Buddhism in the region of Golok once China鈥檚 revolutionary fervor gave way to reform. Holly Gayley, who was given their correspondence by Namtrul Rinpoche himself, has translated their lives and letters in order to share their remarkable story with the world.
Winner of a 2021 Kayden Translation Award.
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Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies, is a scholar and translator of contemporary Buddhist literature in Tibet. She is author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet, co-editor of A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet, and translator of Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro T膩re Lhamo.
Praise:
"An instant classic, Gayley鈥檚 translations of contemporary love letters between a Tibetan visionary couple are luminous. The couple鈥檚 spiritual courtship animates a relationship that bridges the traditional and modern, transcendent and mundane. This is an inspiring page-turner that shows mutually transformative love is really possible." 鈥擩udith Simmer-Brown, author of Dakini鈥檚 Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
"Inseparable across Lifetimes tells the amazing personal stories of two Buddhist masters in twentieth-century Tibet, and their love letters are skillfully translated here into soaring yet intimate English. Few publications record this crucial time period after the cultural devastation of Tibet, and fewer still offer such visionary hope for some kind of transformation." 鈥擲arah Harding, author of Niguma, Lady of Illusion
"In a love relationship that was not just based on ordinary passions, but rather the union of incisive knowledge and skillful means, Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro T膩re Lhamo came to know the pure essence of wisdom exaltation as the sacred union of male and female. They used this unobstructed power to work for the welfare of others through their enlightened deeds. I am grateful to Holly Gayley for bringing their exemplary life stories and songs of profound union into the English language so that readers can glimpse the best of our Tibetan Vajrayana tradition." 鈥擫ama Chonam, teacher and translator, Light of Berotsana Translation Group
"There is a decided feeling of closeness, care, and devotion in this wondrous tale鈥攁 taste of bliss." 鈥Buddhadharma: The Practitioner鈥榮 Quarterly