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The Play of Magical Illusion

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

In this personal account Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche — the Younger Tutor of His Holiness the current Dalai Lama — tells the story of his life. It is an eventful and moving life from early on. The rigors of academia in a Tibetan monastic seat, a reincarnate master’s training, brutal challenges that few in his status encounter, and how he came through them all, becoming a rising spiritual master sought equally by commoners as well as the elite in Lhasa: Kyabje Rinpoche relates all of these, and much more, in sober detail. He then recounts how he was given responsibilities as the Junior Tutor to His Holiness. We become witness to an unusually close and enduring spiritual bond and deep mutual reverence and affection that develop between the individual and his second mentor.