Perseverance,
by Clifford Thurlow
leer en español My name is Sangay Tzondru. It means the Buddha of Perseverance. The name was given to me by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, my teacher when a did a course in Buddhism in Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community that had fled from the Chinese over the high peaks of the Himalayas to India.I was taking a sabbatical from my career as a journalist and lent my scant editing skills to the team of scholars translating the dharma into English. We met with the Dalai Lama every Wednesday and reported our progress over buttery tea and plates of barfi, Indian sweets made from coconut, cardamom and buffalo milk.With a Tibetan student at Delhi University translating, I made a collection of folk tales that I turned into the book, Stories From Beyond the Clouds. It was pu...