Michele Martin has been a Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years and has spent the last fifteen years based in Nepal and India studying with Tibetan lamas and working as a translator of oral and written Tibetan. Her publications include numerous translations from Tibetan texts on philosophy and meditation, and also articles on Buddhism. For the last two years she has translated for the Karmapa and currently lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.
Introduction
PART I: The Life Story of the Seventeenth Karmapa
1 The Discovery
2 Return to Tsurphu
3 Visions and Rainbows
4 �It's Now or Never"
5 Escape from Tsurphu
6 Over the Highest Mountains
7 Times of Uncertainty
8 Emerging As a Leader
PART II: The Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa
PART III: The Poetry of the Seventeenth Karmapa
PART IV: The History of the Karmapas
Introduction to the History of the Karmapas
A Traditional Narrative of the Karmapas
Brief Histories of the Sixteen Karmapas
Songs of the Sixteenth Karmapa
Appendix: Tibetan Names
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
