Yungdrung: A Ramble in Tibetan Studies | A Festschrift for Charles Ramble

George FitzHerbert, Fernanda Pirie, Ulrike Roesler, and Alice Travers
ISBN: 9789937733465
Binding: Hardcover

From the Preface
Dr Tim Myatt
(Oxford)

One has to start somewhere: let me begin by reminding you that one long evening Charles translated Freddie Mercury's operatic prog-rock ballad Bohemian Rhapsody into Tibetan-now, where do we go from there? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Charles was, until his Oxford retirement, the founder, heart, and animating genius of the Tibetan & Himalayan Studies programme. This was founded within Oxford's Oriental Institute (as was), and was turned, by Charles' sheer force of personality and will, into an impossible and unlikely success. The central point is Wolfson College, where Charles' centripetal force spun an extraordinary collection of interested people harmoniously into the orbit of his proto-faculty....

Weight: 1.4 kg approx
Pages: xl, 721