Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher; the Indian mahasiddha Padampa Sangye is counted as a lineage guru by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He brought the lineage of Chöd to Tibet; carried the Buddha's teachings to China; and is even asserted in the Tibetan tradition to have been the legendary Bodhidharma. Padampa Sangye's teaching methods were unorthodox and sometimes extreme. This transcendent and irascible teacher encouraged his disciples to disregard social conventions; disdain social contacts; and go beyond their cultural conditioning. He inspired innumerable highly realized disciples; many of whom were women. Lion of Siddhas presents two extraordinary texts: a biography of Padampa Sangye; and a rare collection of his verbal and nonverbal teachings called Mahamudra in Symbols; recorded by his chief Tibetan disciple almost a thousand years ago. Both are previously untranslated.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyed it muchBy Gary F.My ancestors fought in this war. Enjoyed it much.19 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Well-Written; Well-Argued and Balanced TreatmentBy Daniel R. SeligmanJames D. Drake's "King Philip's War" offers a tight; well-argued thesis that the King Philip War should be viewed more as a civil insurrection than a "settler-versus-Indian" conflict. It is not a chronological account of the war but rather a well-researched interpretation. For a detailed account of the war's events; the reader should see Douglas Leach's "Flintlock and Tomahawk" or Jill Lepore's "The Name of War." Indeed; for a full appreciation of Drake's arguments it is probably a good idea to have read beforehand one or the other of these excellent accounts.Drake examines the tensions among the various groups that figured in the war -- the bickering among the English colonies; the divided loyalties of the so-called praying Indians; the complex relationships among the Wampanoags; Narragansetts and other Algonquian tribes -- and argues that the war can best be explained as a conflict within single a society rather than a racial conflict between the Puritans and the natives. He frequently resorts to the molecular analogy of covalent bonding to explain how different groups can contribute to a definable whole (the molecule) while remaining in some fashion distinct (the atoms).Drake's work invites comparison with Russell Bourne's "The Red King's Rebellion;" also an interpretive piece. Bourne examines how an amicable relationship between the Puritans and the Algonquians dating from the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620 degenerated into an ugly armed conflict in the 1670s. While both Bourne and Drake take pains to examine the war from the perspectives of both the colonists and the Algonquians; Drake seems a little less prone to condemn the Puritans and more willing to view their treatment of the natives in the context of contemporary European attitudes toward war and rebellion."King Philip's War;" a well-written; well-argued and balanced treatment of a complex subject; is both good scholarship and good reading.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I went to the library; brought home a stack of King Philips books and this one was the bestBy Cindy CutlerI know some reviewers disagree with the civil war theory of the book but I think it's be best one out there. Part of what makes this war interesting is that it is unique and hard to compare to other wars so it does make it difficult to put a label on it. But I do agree that "civil war" is the best one.This book does touch on the racial and religious aspects of the war but also goes into economic and political alliances between the leadership of the colonies and the Indians. This is information that I wasn't able to find in any other book and which I found to be interesting and relevant.
