Karmapa The Black Hat Lama of Tibet : Nik Douglas & Meryl White 1976
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The Compiled Lives and Stories of the Karmapa Lama, The “Black Hat Lama” Head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism by Nik Douglas and Meryl White
Douglas, Nik; White, Meryl, compilers. Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet. Luzac and Company. London, UK. 1976. First Edition.
A thorough overview of the lives and role of the Karmapa Lama, the head of the Karma Kagyu school of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism, including his compiled life stories over 16 incarnations. Co-compiler Nik Douglas also created the popular and influential Secret Dakini Oracle fortune telling card deck, republished in 2003 as the Tantric Dakini Oracle deck. This copy also includes a separate color portrait of the then-current 16th Lama, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, who died in 1984.
[xii], [2], 3-248pp. Black cloth boards with double dorje gilt to front. Title and author gilt to spine. Bottom spine bumped. Binding tight. Pages clean. Includes numerous photographs, a folding lineage chart, and a separate color portrait of Karmapa Lama Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Original dust jacket with minor wear. Very good in very good.
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