Lives of Freda :
Whitehead, Andrew (Journalist),
Lives of Freda : the political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi / The lives of Freda Andrew Whitehead. - New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2019 - xvi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
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Rs.499/-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-345) and index.
Tibetan Buddhist terms -- Prologue : putting on the robes -- The Suicide Club -- The gates of the world -- Everything that was good in us -- Your people shall be my people -- The huts beyond model town -- A martyr awaiting execution -- Behind the mud walls -- From a woman's window -- Bengal lamenting -- Kashmir in disguise -- A new world -- Buddha and Baba -- Brave and wonderful people -- The Young Lamas' Home School -- A nun's life -- Seeding the west -- Sister and mother -- Postscript.
From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, nee Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set foot in the country. She was English by birth and upbringing - and Indian by marriage, cultural affinity and political loyalty. Later, she travelled the world as a revered Buddhist teacher, but India would remain her home to the end.
9789388070751 9388070755
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
Bedi, Freda, 1911-1977.
Buddhist women--India--Biography.
Buddhist nuns--India--Biography.
Nationalists--India--Biography.
English--India--Biography.
Buddhist nuns.
Buddhist women.
English.
Nationalists.
India.
Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.
294.3923092 WHI
Lives of Freda : the political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi / The lives of Freda Andrew Whitehead. - New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2019 - xvi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Gratis
Rs.499/-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-345) and index.
Tibetan Buddhist terms -- Prologue : putting on the robes -- The Suicide Club -- The gates of the world -- Everything that was good in us -- Your people shall be my people -- The huts beyond model town -- A martyr awaiting execution -- Behind the mud walls -- From a woman's window -- Bengal lamenting -- Kashmir in disguise -- A new world -- Buddha and Baba -- Brave and wonderful people -- The Young Lamas' Home School -- A nun's life -- Seeding the west -- Sister and mother -- Postscript.
From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, nee Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set foot in the country. She was English by birth and upbringing - and Indian by marriage, cultural affinity and political loyalty. Later, she travelled the world as a revered Buddhist teacher, but India would remain her home to the end.
9789388070751 9388070755
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
Bedi, Freda, 1911-1977.
Buddhist women--India--Biography.
Buddhist nuns--India--Biography.
Nationalists--India--Biography.
English--India--Biography.
Buddhist nuns.
Buddhist women.
English.
Nationalists.
India.
Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.
294.3923092 WHI