YERPA CAVE 1

ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས་ 城关区 (CN)
29.616700,91.250000
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

One of the sacred natural caves at Yerpa rock near Sera, north-east of Lhasa. CULTURAL HISTORY - Human use: Troglodyte hermitage retreat. It is renowned for having been used by the Indian Buddhist saint and reformator Atisha, who was born in AD 925. EVANS-WENTZ (1937: 18) notes Atisha's cave is venerated and lies below creepers and roses. BELL (1924 edited 1992: 31): The cave where Atisha lived, sixteen miles [25.7 km] east of Lhasa, is still preserved [?]. High up on the sunny mountainside, surrounded by stunted junipers and bushes of wild currant and wild rose, it seemed a fitting home for a religious reformer in this land of ice and snow.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Bell, Charles Alfred 1924 (reprinted 1968, 1971, 1990, 1992a, 1992b), 1925, 1931; Evans Wentz, Walter Y 1937; Hummel, Siegbert1957; Loubierre 1988; Stein, Rolf A 1988; Tucci, Giuseppe 1952, 1956.

History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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