Filter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Buddhist monks India Biography Buddhist monks India Ladākh Biography Female-to-male transsexuals Biography Mahayana Buddhism Merchant marine Great Britain Biography RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist) Self-actualization (Psychology) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Surgeons Great Britain BiographyFilter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Buddhist monks India Biography Buddhist monks India Ladākh Biography Female-to-male transsexuals Biography Mahayana Buddhism Merchant marine Great Britain Biography RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist) Self-actualization (Psychology) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Surgeons Great Britain BiographySummary: Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONTenzin Priyadarshi
Summary: "The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family. At the age of six he began having visions of a snowy mountainous region in which men with shaved heads, in robes the color of sunset, wandered about. "It was as vividas if I were watching a scene from life," he writes. At the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place, taking a train to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TENZIN PRIYADARSHI TENDillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017