Présentation de l'éditeur
Penthouse Of The Gods - A Pilgrimage Into The Heart Of Tibet And The Sacred City Of Lhasa. Excerpt: Life began to stir in the middle of the night, as preparations were being made for the great ceremony. With the dawn I was awakened by the rhythmic beating of drums, the ceaseless drone of sixteen-foot trumpets and the vibrant chanting of thousands of Lamas, as they filed their way to the slab-paved courtyard of the famous temple. For an instant I was startled, wondering where I was that I should experience such strange sensations. Then I remembered. This was the presaging for me of the day of days: I was to appear before the T ri Rimpoche, the highest Lama of Tibet, who was to instal me with my vestments after this ultimate ritual initiation. For months this divine soul had been the unforeseen guide of my destiny; it was he who had prepared me for the final step.
Biographie de l'auteur
Theos Casimir Bernard (December 10, 1908 death date unknown, probably mid-September, 1947) was an accomplished American practitioner of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, a scholar of religion and explorer. Theos Bernard pioneered Indian and Tibetan studies at Columbia University. He was the third American to ever set foot in Lhasa, Tibet, and the first American to be initiated into the rites of Tibetan Buddhism. He published several accounts of the theory and practice of the religions of India and Tibet, including his PhD dissertation on Hatha Yoga. He was the founder of the first Tibetan Buddhist research institute in United States, he compiled a Tibetan grammar and planned for the systematic translation of Indian and Tibetan literature into English.
