{"title":"Sera Khandro","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by Sera Khandro offer a profound insight into a life marked by spiritual depth and resilience. Readers can explore memoirs that reflect on personal journeys through faith, culture, and history, presented with a contemplative and introspective voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is ideal for those interested in biographies and memoirs that illuminate the intersection of individual experience and wider cultural traditions, inviting reflection on identity and the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sera-khandro-by-sera-khandro-9780231224123","title":"Sera Khandro","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA renowned Buddhist visionary who was recognised as a reincarnation of Tibet's preeminent female saint, Yeshé Tsogyel, Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé (1892-1940) was also a prolific writer with remarkable literary gifts. \u003cem\u003eSera Khandro\u003c\/em\u003e presents the unabridged translation of her extraordinary autobiography—one of only a handful of life stories written by women in Tibetan literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSera Khandro's chronicle intersperses the story of her spiritual awakening with candid accounts of the difficulty, misogyny, and injustice of everyday life in the nomadic pastoral culture of eastern Tibet. Even as she enters otherworldly realms and encounters deities and spirits, she endures the sufferings typical of women's lives in this time and place. In vivid detail, she relates prophecies and celestial visions alongside deeply human emotions like joy and sorrow, depression and rage, passionate love and fathomless grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrimming with spiritual insight, eloquent figurative language, and forthright storytelling, the book intermingles genres such as poetry, songs, and vernacular dialogue. It features evocative portrayals of Tibetan landscapes and culture, redolent of alpine pastures and grazing livestock, together with intricate descriptions of transcendent experiences. Sera Khandro's autobiography is not only an invaluable resource for understanding the lives of Tibetan Buddhist women but also a beautiful and poignant work of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book features forewords by Sogen Rinpoche Pema Lodoe, spiritual director of Tupten Osel Choling and holder of Sera Khandro's spiritual lineage, and Lama Jabb, lecturer in Tibetan language at the University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67807670632684,"sku":"9780231224123","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231224123-sera-khandro-1.jpg?v=1792526476"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/sera-khandro.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}