Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler by Thupten Jinpa, Gendün Chöphel, Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

Thupten Jinpa, Gendün Chöphel, Donald S. Lopez Jr.

456 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native la...

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