[Buddha-l] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Kyabj? Pema Norbu Rinpoche Enters> Parinirvana]

[Richard Nance]

Robert Leverant cited the following:

> "Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. ... Spirit is land of high,
> white peaks, and glittering jewel like lakes and flowers.  ...But the
> creative soul craves spirit. Out of the jungles of the lamaserary, the most
> beautiful monks one day bid farewell to their comrades and go to make the
> solitary journey toward the peaks, to mate with the cosmos . ..." (H. H. the
> Dalai Lama in a letter to Peter Goullart... Quoted in an essay by James
> Hillman Peaks & Values, Puer Papers, Spring Publications, 1979.

For what it's worth, the passage above is drawn in its entirety from
Pierre Delattre's _Tales of a Dalai Lama_ (though Hillman doesn't
bother to note the source).  The text as a whole is a work of
Delattre's imagination; the 14th Dalai Lama wrote none of the above.

Best wishes,

R. Nance
Indiana