Longing to Awaken

Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song

Holly Gayley, Dominique Townsend, Lama Jabb

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University of Virginia Press
31 August 2024

Folk & traditional music; Poetry anthologies; Philosophy of religion; Buddhist life & practice

Series: Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs

Longing to Awaken features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods. The anthology invites readers to experience a variety of poetic forms that embody a range of emotions, from grief and longing to skepticism and humor, demonstrating the ways that poetry can inspire faith as well as reflect the profundity and at times fraught nature of the teacher-student relationship. This collection gives weight to literary—not simply literal—translation as a crucial endeavor in the transmission of Buddhism today, one with the potential to raise the profile of Tibetan poetry onto the stage of global literature.

Introduction by: Lama Jabb
Edited by: Holly Gayley, Dominique Townsend
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 32mm
ISBN: 9780813950686
ISBN 10: 0813950686
Series: Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 31 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Holly Gayley is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet. Dominique Townsend is Professor of Religion at Bard College and the author of A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s MindrÖling Monastery.