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Free Download Jinba Tenzin, "The Beggar Lama: The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap"
English | ISBN: 0231209355 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in Tsanlha, Gyalrong, on the easternmost fringes of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, he would go on to become a monk, a Communist official, a professor of Tibetan studies, and a leader in the Tibetan cultural survival movement in China.

Free Download The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis of Assisi By Louis de Wohl
2001 | 378 Pages | ISBN: 0898708141 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant’s son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th Century Italy and Egypt, here is the magnificent and inspiring story of Francis Bernardone, the brash, pleasure-loving young officer who was to become immortalized as St. Francis of Assisi.The story teems with action, pageantry and intrigue with finely conceived characters-the beautiful, saintly Clare, Frederick, the hawk-faced King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, the Sultan Al Kamil, Pope Innocent III. The scene shifts from Assisi, Rome and Sicily to the deadly sands of Egypt.This book was made into a feature film by 20th Century Fox entitledFrancis of Assisi, now available on video from Ignatius Press.

Free Download The Beggar’s Banquet: A Personal Retreat on Christ, His Mother, the Spiritual Life, and the Saints By Regis Martin
2014 | 81 Pages | ISBN: 1940329140 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Beggar’s Banquet is a feast of reflections to savor while meditating on the astounding mystery of God’s love for His people. Dr. Regis Martin infuses these discourses on Christ, His Mother, the spiritual life, and the saints with a wide breadth of influences the writings of popes, mystics, and theologians, great works of literature, and even poetry. The author rekindles the familiar Gospel message with ever deepening wonder, whetting the appetite for that which alone truly satisfies: the Bread of Life.