EVA VAN DAM
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THE MAGIC LIFE OF MILAREPA | ||
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Milarepa is a comic strip book, originally published in 1991 by Shambhala publications, Boston, U.S.A. It has been translated into Japanese, Chinese (Taiwan), Tibetan, French and Dutch. It is presently being published in a new updated edition in French. The english edition of 'Milarepa' is available in the better bookshops of Kathmandu. During Eva van Dam's first journey to Tibet in may 1987, she was appalled to see the oppression of the Tibetan people by the Chinese occupants, and wanted to make a statement about the heroic quality of the Tibetan people and culture. The life of the great buddhist yogi Milarepa is a perfect example of that heroic nature. Eva began work on the drawings in 1988 and it took about two years to finish the book. Currently she is working on a new comic strip book about the life of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. |
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Cover of the English version |
Cover of the Japanese version |
Cover of the Tibetan version |
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THE MAGIC LIFE OF MILAREPA portrays the legendary exploits of Tibetan Buddhism's most renowned saint. Full of intrique, disaster and amazing feats, it is the heroic story of a man who transforms from an avenging black magician into a supremely powerfull yogi, pointing the way to self-knowledge and liberation. It is the year 1050, and Milarepa is seeking vengeance on unscrupulous relatives for mistreating his mother and sister, trained in sorcery. He commands a rain of scorpions, snakes and lizzards to attack the villains. But when his teacher rebukes him for his evil deeds, Milarepa renounces black magic to seek mystic truth. He retreats to a cave where, after years of intense meditation, he acquires the power to change his body into a shape and to fly across the sky like a bird. But most important, he achieves the greatest victory of all - mastery over his own self.
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