Simon Ings

A Buddhist garden of earthly delights

Gendun Chopel’s long, dizzying poem is not only spectacularly explicit but a deeply sensitive guide to the different needs of men and women

  • The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love and Sex

    Gendun Chopel, translated by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Thupten Jinpa

    University of Chicago Press, pp. 160

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