Tales of a Mad Yogi five-pronged Pema provides readers with a

Pema provides readers with a master course in living life fully and compassionately in the shadow of death and change

along with direct advice on how to bring one's experience onto the path

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an area of Kathmandu with centuries-old tradition of statue making

Tales of a Mad Yogi five-pronged Pema provides readers with aBy Elizabeth Monson The fifteenth century Himalayan saint Drukpa Kunley is a beloved figure throughout Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal, known both for his profound mastery of Buddhist practice as well as his highly unconventional and often humorous behavior. Ever the proverbial trickster and crazy wisdom yogi, his outward appearance and conduct of carousing, philandering, and breaking social norms is understood to be a means to rouse ordinary people out of