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Shapkar Tsogdruk Randrol is considered to be one of the great voices of Tibetan Buddhist poetry.
Shapkar was born in northwestern Tibet. He entered monastic studies at the age of eight and took full ordination at 21. While still a young man, he became respected for his scholarship.
When Shapkar was about 25 he took up the life of a wandering poet-monk, traveling for the next thirty years to sacred sites and pilgirmage destinations. His life as a wandering ascetic and his songs of spiritual insight became widely known, earning him comparisons with the great wandering Buddhist yogi-poet Milarepa.
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