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About The People Prayer Wheel
People Prayer Wheel is a study of Tibet and Tibetans right from the legendary days of religious kings to the present age. It describes there social and religious beliefs spiritual development and the unfolding of the saga of Ganden Phodrang under the Great Fifth to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and its renunciation by the democracy loving H.H. Terzan Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama. The author also traces the background of Sino Tibetan relations through the centuries and Tibet s occupation by the Chinese. Written in a simple and racy style People of the Prayer wheel is totally free from scholastic jargon. Prof. Sharma is now permanently settled in Dharamshala.
ABOUT the AUTHOR of People Prayer Wheel
Born in 1923. Prof. Parmananda Sharma did his Masters in English language and literature from Government College Lahore in 1945 After teaching for about four decades in various colleges of Punjab Haryana and Himachal Pradesh he finally retired in 1982 as Principal Government College Dharamshala.
Prof. Sharma has more than thirty publication s to his credit including Hindi mahakavyas English poetry and prose and translations from Sanskrit into English of such Buddhist classics of 9th and 10th centuries as Shantideva s bodhicharyavatara and Kamalasila s Bhananakrama (with Forewords From H.H. the Dalai Lama) Hindi translation of Atisha s Bodhipatha-pradeep and volumes of Hindi translations of the Dalai Lama s discourse beside others. His Men and mules on Mission of Demacrary (pub. 1960) had a Foreword from Jawaharlal Nehru. His first mahakavya on Shivajee (1948) earned his a prize from the U.P. Government. Nominated as Hindi Rajkavi by the Punjab Government in 1964 Prof. Sharma also served as a member of the General Council of Sahitya Academy. New Delhi from 1977-82. He was nominated for life to be a Member of the Governing Body of LTWA in 1987 by HH. the Dalai Lama.
ISBN-10 : 9380359977
ISBN-13 : 978-9380359977