- Blazing Splendor
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Tenga Rinpoche
- Foreword by Daniel Goleman
- Translators’ Preface
- Preface to the New Edition
- Prologue
- Part One: Spiritual Roots
- 1. Grandmother’s Mission
- 2. Tibet, a Buddhist Land
- 3. Gampopa and the Early Barom Masters
- 4. The Treasures of the Lotus-Born
- 5. My Great-Grandfather, the Treasure Revealer
- 6. Two Sublime Masters
- 7. Lord of Activity, the Fifteenth Karmapa
- 8. Spiritual Sons
- 9. My Precious Grandmother
- 10. My Guru, Samten Gyatso
- 11. My Father, the Performer of Miracles
- 12. Two Special Uncles and Their Teachers
- 13. Shakya Shri, the Lord of Siddhas
- 14. The Master-Scholar Katok Situ
- Part Two: Early Years
- 15. My Childhood
- 16. The Nunnery of Yoginis
- 17. Receiving My First Teachings
- 18. An Extraordinary Speech
- 19. My Previous Life
- 20. My Monastery and Enthronement
- 21. The Young Karmapa
- 22. Grandmother’s Death
- 23. The Colorful Chokling of Tsikey
- 24. Transmission at Surmang
- 25. The Master in the Hollow Tree
- 26. An Eccentric King
- 27. My Last Days with Samten Gyatso
- 28. My Guru’s Passing
- 29. Meetings with a Remarkable Teacher
- Part Three: Central Tibet
- 30. At Tsurphu with the Karmapa
- 31. Brilliant Moon
- 32. My Last Visit to Central Tibet
- 33. Amazing Masters in Lhasa
- Part Four: In Exile
- 34. Leaving Tibet
- 35. Sikkim
- 36. Nepal
- 37. The Chokling of Neten
- 38. The Hearing Lineage from Bomta Khenpo
- 39. Conclusion
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Art Credits
- Appendix: The Lineage of the New Treasures
- Notes
- Glossary
- Long-Life Supplication for Urgyen Jigme Rabsel
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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