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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism

Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

Matthew T Kapstein author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

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Thanks to the international celebrity of the present Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. Although there have been numerous specialist studies of individual Tibetan texts, however, no scholarly work has as yet done justice to the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. This book fills this lacuna, bringing to bear the best methodological insights of the contemporary human sciences, and at the same time conveying to non-specialist readers an impression of the broad domain of Tibetan religious and philosophical thought. Ranging widely over the immense corpus of Tibetan literature, Kapstein brilliantly illuminates many of the distinctive Tibetan contributions and points out some of the insights.

A rich field of thoughtful analysis and a fertile seedbed of ideas about how Dharma was received and transmitted in Tibet up to the fifteenth century * The Middle Way *
convincingly argued ... informative and insightful * The Middle Way *

ISBN: 9780195131222

Dimensions: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 590g

336 pages