{"product_id":"like-a-waking-dream-the-autobiography-of-geshe-lhundub-sopa-9780861713134","title":"Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundub Sopa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lhundub Sopa\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wisdom Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wisdom Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Buddhism - Tibetan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the generation of elder Tibetan lamas who brought Tibetan Buddhism west in the latter half of the twentieth century, perhaps none has had a greater impact on the academic study of Buddhism than Geshe Lhundub Sopa. He has striven to preserve Tibetan religious culture through tireless work as a professor and religious figure, establishing a functioning Buddhist monastery in the West, organizing the Dalai Lama's visits to the U.S., and offering countless teachings across the country. But prior to his thirty-year career in the first ever academic Buddhist studies program in the United States - a position in which he oversaw the training of many among the seminal generation of American Buddhist studies scholars - Geshe Sopa was the son of peasant farmers, a novice monk in a rural monastery, a virtuoso scholar-monk at one of the prestigious central monasteries in Lhasa, and a survivor of the Tibetan uprising and perilous flight into exile in 1959. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLike a Waking Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, Geshe Sopa frankly and observantly reflects on how his life in Tibet - a monastic life of yogic simplicity - shaped and prepared him for the unexpected. His is a tale of an exemplary life dedicated to learning, spiritual cultivation, and the service of others from one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhism.","brand":"Wisdom Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45355872616599,"sku":"9780861713134","price":1773.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780861713134.webp?v=1767671299","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/like-a-waking-dream-the-autobiography-of-geshe-lhundub-sopa-9780861713134","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}