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From a Mountain In Tibet

A Monk’s Journey

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From a Mountain In Tibet

By: Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Narrated by: John Sackville
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Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15-years-old.

In his quiet village, he and other children ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. Food was carefully apportioned and eaten together, everyone was family.

The arrival of Chinese army cars one day in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas to start over as a refugee. One of only 13 survivors out of 300 travellers, he spent the next few years in America, experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation before reforming in Europe.

Now in his seventies and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland - the first Buddhist centre in the West - Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life. From his learnings on self-compassion and discipline to his trials and tribulations with loss and failure, his poignant story mirrors our own struggles.

Written with erudition and humour, From a Mountain in Tibet shines a light on how the most desperate of situations can help us to uncover vital life lessons and attain lasting peace and contentment.

© Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Critic reviews

This is a fascinating story of an incredible life, told with unflinching honesty
His jovial nature belies his harsh, if colourful, personal journey from hedonistic teen rebel to devoted abbot of the Kagyu Samye Ling monastery, and it's remarkable to comprehend from his new book [...] just how the monk survived to redeem himself
Despite everything he has suffered, his story is a hopeful one and that can inspire others. Spending just a short time in his joyful company, and hearing his extraordinary personal journey, makes his unmovable positivity, forgiveness and tranquillity even more inspirational
Beautifully written
Brilliant and riveting. This book shows us that freedom is a choice we can all make
All stars
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Through skilfully telling of his own struggles as a Tibetan refugee disillusioned with his plight in life, Lama Yeshe skilfully weaves insightful teachings learned through the depths of his own difficult experiences in what has been a difficult and tumultuous journey filled with much sadness and grief. Alongside these difficulties, there has much much joy however thanks to the strength of his Buddhist faith, explained in a way that many Westerners can relate to, and which they can use to great effect in their own life to ease their own difficulties and troubles.

Thank You for this precious gift Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche 🙏💖🌈

Am incredible story of an incredible man

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A superb book documenting the journey of an exile monk who finds the path. The author leaves Tibet during Mao's cultural revolution and flees to India and then on to Scotland and the united States. In the West he gets seducted by the free-love hippy era lifestyle and western materialism. He eventually hits rock bottom and bounces back to become one of the most revered western Buddhist Monks and pioneer of many things Buddhism in the west now largely takes for granted (temporary ordination and full femail ordination). The author narrates us through his five year solo retreat and through a series of three 49-day conplete sensory deprivation retreats.

An insightful and educational book, by a man who defied what life through at him and went on to become a great teacher.

Superb book

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For all those who are seeking to understand the nature of your mind. This book is nothing short of a valuable treasure. Utterly inspring and deeply transformative, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche's words come to us when we most need his compassion and guidance.

A must listen

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Amazing story as well as some inspiring words to help you on your own path.

Awe inspiring

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Lama Yeshe’s life story has more plot twists than the most complex of Hollywood movies and yet it is a real life lived experience. Such an amazing character full of humility, wisdom and a pure love of life. Totally inspiring and all this despite the fluctuating quality of the audio recording. I personally found this element amusing after a while and another learning to just be with the moment 🙏. Thank you to all who made this audiobook so accessible to everyone.

What and incredible story

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