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Gendun Drup's Search for Truth

There is a student in Tsongkhapa who isthat had possessed the truth to be exposed to
well-known in Tibet as the first Dalai Lama.the  readers.
This man, Gendun Drup, went to a Tibetan
Buddhism school. Gendun Drup was from aThe author tells that he had discovered the
family of traveling tribe people so histhree fantastic truth about the world. First
parents prepared him to grow to be a shepherdof all, nothing occurs from nothing in this
until he went to the Nartang monastery at theworld that's why nothing can be gone forever.
age of seven. He reached the success as aOur life has a repeated nature - substance
teachers in Tibet during his juvenile years.turns into energy while energy becomes
His most well-known work is "Sunlight on thesubstance. The second statement is, that the
Path to Freedom" and Dalai Lama presents inworld is active - changes take place and
it an explanation on the existing style ofalways will take place. There is a lot of
living  and  explains  the other way of life.suffering embedded in life that's why changes
are not always for good. Lastly, nothing
Gendun Drup starts his book with the storytakes place without a specific cause. All of
about how he was sitting in the garden inhuman existing experiences are the results of
deep meditation and had made a decision thatsome previous deeds. People's life is ruled
he would not finish his queries until heby Karma and everybody came to the world as
found the approach to lessen sufferings ofindividuals as a result of divine
human race. He had spent hours and days inreincarnation.
his quiet search for truth until he felt that



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