The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory - Rilegato

Kapstein, Matthew T.

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ISBN 10: 0195131223 ISBN 13: 9780195131222

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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)

Product Description:

Thanks to the international celebrity of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. There have been numerous specialist studies of individual Tibetan texts, however, this study focuses on the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. It brings to bear the methodological insights of contemporary human sciences and, at the same time, offers 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 illuminates many of the distinctive Tibetan contributions and points out some of the insights. This book is intended for scholars and students of Buddhism and Asian Studies.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195131223
• ISBN 13: 9780195131222
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336