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We are so pleased at the enthusiastic response we have received from so many of you for our Poetry Month in April. Our heartfelt thanks to all the amazing poets and translators who participated and sent us such moving and beautiful recordings. We hope that throughout this ordeal we are currently living through, we can continue to offer quiet literary moments of reflection from time to time.
And due to popular demand, let’s share another literary moment together– a new recording sent to us over the weekend by Geshe Beri Jigme Wangyal of Varanasi. He sent us a work that, after weeks of staying in place with uncertainty and stress and the emotions this situation can generate, will no doubt resonate with many of us.
Geshe la reads his multi-verse poem entitled “A Poem of Weariness,” expressing his deep remorse at not being able to return home. He begins by saying, “While the great Chinese poet Li Bai could rely on wine to comfort himself in his melancholy, Geshe la being a monk, has no escape for this sadness.
Geshe Beri Jigme is a famous poet and Professor of Literature at the Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi. He is best known in Tibetan literary circles for being the “only romantic poet with a Geshe degree.” He has published over 20 books on a wide variety of subjects, and has said that he hopes his writings “have the potential to change people’s souls.”
ཁོང་གི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་འདི་དག་ལ་པར་དབང་ཡོད་པས། ཁོང་གི་བཀའ་འཁྲོལ་མེད་པར་པར་སྐྲུན་དང་འགྲེམས་སྤེལ་བྱེད་མི་ཆོག Content subject to copyright. Please do not republish or distribute without permission.
ཁོང་གི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་འདི་དག་ལ་པར་དབང་ཡོད་པས། ཁོང་གི་བཀའ་འཁྲོལ་མེད་པར་པར་སྐྲུན་དང་འགྲེམས་སྤེལ་བྱེད་མི་ཆོག Content subject to copyright. Please do not republish or distribute without permission.
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