Gendün Chöphel

Amdo Gendün Chöphel (1903-1951). A creative and controversial figure, friend of Rahul Sankrityayan, who is considered by many to have been one of the most important Tibetan intellectuals of the 20th Century. His life was the inspiration for Luc Schaedler's film "The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet."

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last = Chöphel
first = Gendun
author-link = Amdo Gendun Chöphel
last2 = Hopkins
first2 = Jeffery
author2-link = Jeffery Hopkins
title = Tibetan Arts of Love
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publisher = Snow Lion Publications
year = 1993
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isbn = 0937938971

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last = Chöpel
first = Gedün
authorlink = Amdo Gendun Chöphel
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title = Die tibetische Liebeskunst
publisher = Nietsch
date = 2006
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isbn = 3934647979

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last = Chopel
first = Gedun
authorlink = Amdo Gendun Chöphel
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title = Dhammapada, Translation of the Dharma Verses with the Tibetan Text
publisher = Dharma Publishing
date = 1985
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isbn = 0913546984

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last = Bogin
first = Benjamin
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last2 = Decleer
first2 = Hubert
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title = Who was 'this evil friend' ('the dog', the 'fool', 'the tyrant') in Gedun Chophel's Sad Song?
journal = The Tibet Journal
volume = 22
issue = 3
pages = 67-78
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year = 1997
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last = Huber
first = Tony
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title = Guide To India: A Tibetan Account by Amdo Gendun Chophel
publisher = Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
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location = Dharamsala, India
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isbn = 8186470255

*Citation
first = Thupten
last = Jinpa
author-link = Thupten Jinpa
editor-last = Wallace
editor-first = B. Alan
contribution = Science as an Allay or a Rival Philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist Thinkers' Engagement with Modern Science
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title = Buddhism & Science: Breaking New Ground
year = 2003
pages =71-85
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publisher = Published by Columbia University Press
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isbn = 0231123353

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last = Lopez
first = Donald S. (Jr.)
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title = The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
publisher = University Of Chicago Press
date = 2007
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isbn = 0226493172

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last = Mengele
first = Irmgard
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title = Gedun Chopel: A Biography of the 20th Century Tibetan Scholar
publisher = Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
date = 1999
location = Dharamsala, India
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isbn = 8186470239

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last = Stoddard
first = Heather
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title = Le mendiant de l'Amdo (Recherches sur la Haute Asie)
publisher = Societe d'ethnographie
date = 1985
location = Paris
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isbn = 2901161286

*Roerich, George N. and Gedun Choepel (Translator) (1988). "The Blue Annals" by Gö Lotsawa. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1976, Reprint in 1979. [reprint of Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949, in two volumes] .

External links

* [http://www.gdqpzhx.com/english/ Gendun Chophel]
*The Story of a Monk Wanderer: [http://www.tibetwrites.org/?The-Story-of-a-Monk-Wanderer-Part,190 Part I] , [http://www.tibetwrites.org/?The-Story-of-a-Monk-Wanderer-Part Part 2]
* [http://www.tibetwrites.org/?Some-Memories-of-Great-Lotsawa Some Memories of Great Lotsawa Gedun Chophel]
* [http://www.angrymonkthefilm.ch/en/gendun_choephel/ Gendun Choephel] - Angry Monk website

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NAME=
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Gendun Choephel
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Lama, intellectual, artist, writer and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH=1903
PLACE OF BIRTH=Repkong, Amdo, Tibet
DATE OF DEATH=1951
PLACE OF DEATH=Lhasa, Tibet