“Looking Over at the Mountains”: Sense of Place in the Third Karmapa’s “Songs of Experience”
By Ruth Gamble
15 pagesin Rangjung Dorje’s poems, the environment is presented as a catalyst for seeing the enlightened “view”. This paper looks at the metaphorical landscape that Rangjung Dorje’s poems evoke, or, to incorporate a helpful term from contemporary literary studies, their “psychogeography”, their “sense of place”.