The
translator, Garma C. C. Chang, traveled extensively in Tibet and studied
Buddhism in several monasteries there for more than eight years. His
translation of
The
Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
is the fruit of many years of extensive study.
Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad...