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Gendn Chphel
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Gendn Chphel (Tibetan: , Wylie: dge

'dun choe 'phel Chinese: ; pinyin: Gngdn
Qnpi)[1] (19031951) was a Tibetan artist, writer and
scholar. He was born in 1903 in Rabkong, Amdo. He was a
creative and controversial figure and he is considered by
many to have been one of the most important Tibetan
intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Gendn Chphel was a friend of Rahul Sankrityayan. His life
was the inspiration for Luc Schaedler's film The Angry Monk:
Reflections on Tibet[2] and The Madman's Middle Way:
Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun
Chophel.[3] He is best known for his collection of essays
called Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Pilgrimage,
written during his time in India and Sri Lanka in between
1934 and 1946. These essays were critical of modern
Hinduism, Christianity, and British imperialism. While
condemning places and events like the Black Hole of
Calcutta and the Goa Inquisition, he praised certain British
colonial practices like the abolition of sati.[4]

A portrait of Gendun Chophel in

India 1936

Contents
1 See also
2 References
3 Sources
4 External links

See also
Tibet Improvement Party

References
1. ^ (http://www.historychina.net/manager/info/inner.jsp?sid=1&cid=34&infoid=25285)
2. ^ The Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet (http://www.angrymonk.ch/)
3. ^ Lopez Jr., Donald S. (2006). The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk
Gendun Choephel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-49316-4.

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4. ^ Schaeffer, Kurtis R; Kapstein, Matthew T; Tuttle, Gray, eds. (2013). "Tibetans Addressing Modern
Political Issues". Sources of Tibetan Tradition. Columbia University Press. p. 753.

Sources
Chphel, Gendn (2006), Clarifying the core of Madhyamaka: Ornament of the thought of
Nagarjuna. (2nd ed.), Arcidosso, GR, Italy: Shang Shung Publications
Chphel, Gendun; Hopkins, Jeffrey (1993), Tibetan Arts of Love, Snow Lion Publications,
ISBN 0-937938-97-1
Chphel, Gedn (2006). Die tibetische Liebeskunst. Nietsch. ISBN 3-934647-97-9.
Chphel, Gedun (1985). Dhammapada, Translation of the Dharma Verses with the Tibetan
Text. Dharma Publishing. ISBN 0-913546-98-4.
Chphel, Gedun (2009). In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Choephel, a
Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Donald S. Lopez Jr. University of Chicago Press.
ISBN 978-0-226-10452-2.
Bogin, Benjamin; Decleer, Hubert (1997), "Who was 'this evil friend' ('the dog', the 'fool', 'the
tyrant') in Gedun Choephel's Sad Song?", The Tibet Journal 22 (3): 6778
Dhondup, K.: "Gedun Choephel: the Man Behind the Legend". Tibetan Review, vol. 13, no.
10, October 1978, p. 1018.
Huber, Toni (2000). Guide to India, a Tibetan Account By: Gendun Choephel
(http://www.namsebangdzo.com/Guide_to_India_a_Tibetan_Account_p/12601.htm).
Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. pp. 162pp. ISBN 81-86470-25-5.
Jinpa, Thupten (2003), "Science as an Allay or a Rival Philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist
Thinkers' Engagement with Modern Science", in Wallace, B. Alan, Buddhism & Science:
Breaking New Ground, Published by Columbia University Press, pp. 7185,
ISBN 0-231-12335-3
Lopez, Donald S. (Jr.) (2007). The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the
Tibetan Monk Gendun Choephel. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-49317-2.
Mengele, Irmgard (1999). Gedun Choephel: A Biography of the 20th Century Tibetan Scholar.
Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. ISBN 81-86470-23-9.
Stoddard, Heather (1985). Le mendiant de l'Amdo (Recherches sur la Haute Asie). Paris:
Societe d'ethnographie. ISBN 2-901161-28-6.
Roerich, George N. and Gedun Choephel (Translator) (1988). The Blue Annals by G
Lotsawa. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1976, Reprint in 1979. [reprint of Calcutta, Royal Asiatic
Society of Bengal, 1949, in two volumes].

External links
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Gendun Choephel (http://www.gdqpzhx.com/english/)

The Story of a Monk Wanderer: Part I (http://www.tibetwrites.org/?The-Story-of-a-MonkWanderer-Part,190), Part 2 (http://www.tibetwrites.org/?The-Story-of-a-Monk-Wanderer-Part)
Some Memories of Great Lotsawa Gedun Choephel (http://www.tibetwrites.org/?SomeMemories-of-Great-Lotsawa)
Gendun Choephel (http://www.angrymonkthefilm.ch/en/gendun_choephel/) Angry Monk
website
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