Mystical verses of Dalai Lama/ Glenn H. Mullin

Part One: Introduction
Tibet's Buddhist Background
The First Dalai Lama
The Fourteen Dalai Lamas
The Dalai Lamas and the Avalokiteshvara Myth
The Tibetan Tradition of Mystical Verse
Tibetan Verse in English Translation
Technical Considerations
Part Two: Life of the Second Dalai Lama
The Biographies of the Second Dalai Lama
The Ancestry and Parentage of the Second Dalai Lama
Birth of the Second Dalai Lama
His Early Childhood
Recognition as the First Dalai Lama's Reincarnation
A Young Monk in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Expelled from Tashi Lhunpo
A Student in Drepung Monastery
A Young Lama on the Road
Fulfilling a Prophecy
Resolving the Tashi Lhunpo Conflict
A Lama's Meditations
Drepung Monastery's New Abbot
Restoring the Great Prayer Festival
The Creation of a Maitreya Statue
The Later Years
Preparing His Disciples for His Passing
Preparing for His Future Incarnation
The Death of a Lama
A Concluding Note
Part Three: Mystical Verses of a Mad Dalai Lama:
Translation and Commentary
1. Song of a Young Reincarnation
2. A Dance to Delight the World
3. Two Alphabetical Poems
4. Song of the Yarlung Valley
5. Song of the Traveling Bee
6. From a Vision of Lama Tsongkhapa
7. Meditations to Prepare the Mind for Death
8. Song of the Enlightenment Path
9. Three Songs to Sung-rab Gyatso
10. Song of the Tantric Path
11. A Prayer of Pure Aspirations
12. A Necklace of Jewels
13. Spiritual Advice to a Hermit
14. In Search of the Middle View
15. Song of a Joyful Fate
16. Song to Lama Norzang Gyatso
17. A Song of Spiritual Joy
18. Ah-oh-la: The Wise They Sing
19. Songs of the Turquoise Dragon
20. A Song to a Female Bodhisattva
21. Song of Tantric Experience
22. A Prayer to the Spiritual Master
23. A Song of Not So Bad
24. Song to the Three Jewels of Refuge
25. Verse for Lodro Tsultrim