The Lama of Many Lifetimes: Touching the Living Heart of Garchen Rinpoche

by Sue-Sue (Tam Bao Dan), Donna Desjardins (Senior Editor), Lodi Gyari (Foreword)

"My intention for Garchen Rinpoche's biography book is not to simply write his biography, but offer a sensory experience in which we move together through the various stages of his life, as author and reader, and so be touched by Garchen Rinpoche's suffering and vast compassion that brings deeper understanding and transformation within our own selves. My wish is for us to dance between lives where past, present, and future all merge into one stream of unbroken continuity. Thus, from the overall aesthetic design to the specific flow of the content from a historical perspective, readers will find a one-of-a-kind biographical storybook that allows them to take part in growing up and growing old with Garchen Rinpoche, just as he did in real life... Lama's heart, your heart, my heart, all beings' hearts... one and the same." Book One is printed on glossy paper with 30 full-page color photos.

420 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Sue-Sue (Vietnamese: Tâm Bảo Đàn) has served as an English-Vietnamese interpreter for H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama, H.H. the 17th Karmapa, H.H. the 37th Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, and other masters from all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. She has translated, edited, and published Dharma books from English into Vietnamese and vice-versa, and founded Viet Nalanda Foundation, an international non-sectarian network for Vietnamese practitioners of Vajrayana.