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The Divine Madman

The Divine Madman

The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley

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The Divine Madman is the first biography to appear in the West of a Crazy Adept “at work”.

This “secret biography” of one of Tibet’s foremost holy men, Drukpa Kunley, who appeared in the spiritual lineage established by Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, contrasts with the lives of other, more ascetical, teachers of the East who teach negation of the body and its desires. Drukpa Kunley used desire, emotion, and sexuality to arouse disillusionment, insight, and delight in all he encountered.

Greatly loved by the people of Tibet as a “Crazy-Wise” teacher, Drukpa Kunley’s outrageous behavior and ribald humor were intended to awaken common people and yogis alike from the sleep of religious dogmatism and ego-possession.

Illustrated by Lee Baarslag.

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The Spiritual Master is indeed a voice that rises in this wilderness, to Awaken every neighbor from the illusion of his acre of land, his ordinary pond, his body-mind. It is a necessary voice, the voice that sounds whenever the Truth of human experience is Revealed to one who is Awake. Therefore, such a one speaks, even with urgency and anger. It is the prophetic voice, the awful shout, expressed with all the gestures of frustrated Divinity.

—AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ

Length: 200 pages

Publication year: 1980

ISBN: 978-091392-275-0

Format: 5.5” x 8.5” softcover