Lama Yongden Livres

Munpa, disciple et serviteur d'un saint ermite, trouve son maître assassiné. Tout à son chagrin et à sa juste colère, l'inconscient se lance sur les pas du meurtrier. Son enquête aux mille rebondissements le conduira du Tibet en Chine, de la prison au monastère, de la bastonnade au lit d'une aubergiste. Munpa subira bien des déceptions. Mais la sagesse est peut-être au bout du voyage. Un roman policier tibétain. Un détective inattendu, pétri de superstition et de logique, de naïveté et de roublardise, d'irrationalité et de sens pratique. De multiples coups de théâtre que n'aurait pas désavoués Agatha Christie. Mais aussi un livre tout empreint de philosophie orientale et riche d'enseignement. Après " Le Lama aux cinq sagesses " et " Magie d'amour et magie noire " , " La Puissance du néant " est le troisième volet du triptyque romanesque d'Alexandra David-Néel.

This story, drawn from old Tibetan folk tales, has the psychological depth of a western novel. It is a love story woven around the search for the missing reincarnation of a great Lama. Along the way we glimpse a people whose spirituality is as exalted as the Himalayas. There is humor as well, when the hero encounters a bewildering group of Christian missionaries. In the depiction of Chinese culture, and the Chinese merchants of Tibet, there is a foreshadowing of the country’s tragic fate.

This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend, the Tibetan lama Aphur Yongden, these teaching are presented clearly and elegantly, intended for the layman who seeks a way to practice and experience the realization of oneness with all existence. Alexandra David-Neel was born in 1868 in Paris. In her youth she wrote an incendiary anarchist treatise and was an acclaimed opera singer; then she decided to devote her life to exploration and the study of world religions, including Buddhist philosophy. She traveled extensively to in Central Asia and the Far East, where she learned a number of Asian languages, including Tibetan. In 1914, she met Lama Yongden, who became her adopted son, teacher, and companion. In 1923, at the age of fifty-five, she disguised herself as a pilgrim and journeyed to Tibet, where she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa, which was closed to foreigners at the time. In her late seventies, she settled in the south of France, where she lived until her death at 101 in 1969.

The narrative centers on King Gesar, an iconic figure celebrated in Tibetan and Central Asian lore, embodying the ultimate warrior spirit and unwavering confidence. He battles malevolent forces from all directions, which symbolize various aspects of fear and distraction that lead people astray from authentic Buddhist teachings. Through his conquests, Gesar serves as a beacon of sanity, promoting the principles of courage and the true path of Buddhism against the backdrop of spiritual warfare.

Sur fond de mystique orientale, avec pour cadre les solitudes enchantées du Tibet, voici " le premier roman qui ait jamais été écrit par un lama tibétain à la gloire de son haut pays des neiges, pour le monde du lointain occident ". Un récit signé d'Alexandra David-Néel et de son fils adoptif le lama Yongden, comparable aux plus beaux mythes de l'amour en Occident et qui mêle à la passion, à l'aventure, la pittoresque description des faits, coutumes et paysages du Tibet.