<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>doi:10.7916/d8-adsc-r615</dc:identifier><dc:title>Oral history interview with Lama Anagarika Govinda (1898-1985). Interview with Yvonne Rand on the life of Lama Govinda.</dc:title><dc:creator>Anagarika Govinda, Lama, 1898-1985</dc:creator><dc:format>sound recordings</dc:format><dc:type>sound recording-nonmusical</dc:type><dc:subject>Buddhists</dc:subject><dc:subject>Western countries</dc:subject><dc:subject>India</dc:subject><dc:description>Oral history interview with Lama Anagarika Govinda (née Ernst Lothar Hoffman, 1898-1985), on his professional and spiritual path. The interview is conducted by Yvonne Rand (a Zen Buddhist teacher) and covers his early years just following the First World War, his time in Naples, Italy, etc.  Concludes with a brief interview of Yvonne Rand (conducted subsequently by Ken Winkler, after Lama Govinda's passing), on additional information relayed by Lama Govinda but which was somehow lost or not recorded, and on her observations regarding the health and final days of the lama prior to his passing in Mill Valley, California.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>